--- In [email protected], "jhar1945" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>

> > 
> The wide T & M locks are of a completely different design to all (as 
> far as I know) other wide locks. On these the ground paddles empty 
> directly from under the cill rather than from the side wall, thus 
> opening same side ground paddle would tend to throw the boat away 
from 
> the lockside rather than holding it a the side entry ones do.
> John
>

When the Basigstoke Canal was restored at least some of (ie at least 
all the ones I worked on) the locks were built so that the ground 
paddles empty from under the cill.

Tim

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