On 31 Oct 2006 at 21:17, Rarebits wrote:

> What Americans would call the driveshaft, we Brits are more likely
> to call the propshaft.

Hah!  A propshaft hold the propeller on an airplane (or if you 
prefer, an aeroplane :-), which that's what we would have been flying 
with before the invention of that Whiggish invention, the jet.  Not 
that I've ever done any flying except in various cars or with someone 
else driving.

-- 
Jim Muller
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'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+

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