Okay, I’ve gone a little over the top there, but if you look back over the history of this magazine, how many haven’t been from one of those two marques? I’ll bet that you can count them on the fingers of one hand. If I’m honest, I suspect you can probably count them on the fingers of one finger…
It’s not that we’re narrowminded – far from it, as our various historical series of obscure models shows – but it’s more that there just isn’t the machinery of high enough quality to showcase. Occasionally though, something breaks the surface, causes a few ripples and escapes into the mist without anyone witnessing it. We got lucky in this case, in that our cameraman Gary was in just the right place to catch this piece of Oriental machinery