--- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <lam...@...> wrote:
> all this pontification on what it's called made me look at the car 
> charts at work (A&M RR).  I find that the long thingie down the middle of a 
> car was/is called the "Longitudinal Runningboard".  The short thingies at 
> the opposite corners are the "Latitudinal Runningboard".
> 

 That depends on whether you want to call it what some guy who wrote the book 
called it or what the guys who actually used them call it?
 We have a similar situation in surveying, the book might call it a transit, 
theodolite, or total station but anyone who's actually used them calls it a 
gun....dave



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