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FASCINATION AT FIRST SIGHT

Human nature is a funny thing, isn’t it? We all have our own quirks and fancies.

When writer Jason Burgess contacted me and said that he had stumbled across a couple of blokes who restore and collect stationary engines, and would I be keen on an article on them, I could hardly contain myself. Would

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