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Spitfire, tick!
Hurricane, tick!
Lancaster, tick!
Wellington, tick!
Beaufort.......you what?
Seriously, nice mug with an uncommon aircraft on it......Comment
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Close! I spent a few decades working on International, European, and British product standards, chairing a few of the relevant Technical Committees. Occasionally got drawn in to discussions with my employer's customers about standards compliance and CE marking requirements. When I retired in 2014 due to some health issues that affected my ability to travel internationally, I was retained by a trade association to advise their members, but that contract ended in 2016 so now I'm a gentleman of leisure!
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If you wan ta bit of history read on. If not -----
Two brothers from Normandy accompanied Will the Conqueror to thrust an arrow in Harold's eye & kill him. Accomplished.
Brothers two, sent to Scotland by Will, as stewards to sort Scottish law & order. The Stewards titles disintegrated into,
with Scottish dialect, Stewart.
And so my ancestry & now I live in seeing distance of where the Stewards came from.
Interesting Stewart & Stuart. The same ancestry via Robert the Bruce. Mary Queen of Scots, a Stewart, was sent to Paris to be educated
as Scots & English were not friends (no change then Nicola S.). French, as usual finicky, do not use W & Mary was using Stuart when
returning to thistle land.
Edinburgh toffs changed to Stuart . Glasgow types, down to earth whisky types, stayed Stewart.
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