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Updated: May 10, 2025
He also, he records, owned one of those oil-driven motor-bicycles whose clumsy complexity and extravagant filthiness still astonish the visitors to the museum of machinery at South Kensington. He mentions running over a dog and complains of the ruinous price of 'spatchcocks' in Surrey. 'Spatchcocks, it seems, was a slang term for crushed hens.
There were hospital ships, cargo vessels, transports, war-ships, monitors, tugs, river boats, oil-driven lighters the ones we made the landing from at Suvla, with a coat of new paint and the letters ML instead of K barges, launches, native dhows which travel to Mombasa and Bombay and innumerable lesser craft. Basra itself lies up a creek, and is invisible from the river.
She might burn coal in her furnaces instead of oil-fuel, and every ounce of coal had to be shovelled on board from a collier by manual labour, whereas, in an oil-driven destroyer, one simply went alongside a jetty or an "oiler," connected up a hose, and went to bed while a pump did all the work.
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