Iconic Designs.

Deltic
A4 steam locomotives
The Shard
Royal Albert hall
The two way arrow on British railways
Reichstag building
Archibald Knox football grounds
Frank matcham theatres
E type jag
 
As above for Concorde and the E type.

The cover of Dark Side of the Moon
Golden Gate bridge
Nakamichi cassette player
Stratocaster guitar

I hated the Shard when I first heard about it but grew to love it especially when my daughter's digs were literally in it's shadow.
 
Vulcan bomber (especially allied to the howl)

Original G Shock Dw5000

Zippo lighters

Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (Rolex ripped it off for the Submariner)
 
Rolex Daytona (although they possibly ripped that one off too)
Crocs
Nokia 3210
Land Rover Defender
Kickers Shoes
 
Walter Gropius/Bauhaus. Architectural perfection.
Dansette record player. All us old gits will have watched frustratingly as 10 singles all dropped at once!
Converse bumps, always struggled with them as I’ve got flat feet.
Levi 501 denim jeans, natch.
 
Limechase said:
Mallard
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Or even... the “Sir Nigel Gresley”.
The same A4 Pacific class as “Mallard” but is occasionally seen out on the tracks, I have seen it on the East Lancs railway running over the Summerseat viaduct. The village was packed with gricers that day.
Named after the chief engineer of LNER who designed the A4 Pacific class.
 
Archibald Knox said:
Or even... the “Sir Nigel Gresley”.
The same A4 Pacific class as “Mallard” but is occasionally seen out on the tracks, I have seen it on the East Lancs railway running over the Summerseat viaduct. The village was packed with gricers that day.
Named after the chief engineer of LNER who designed the A4 Pacific class.
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Sadly Mallard will never run again, spoke with people at York Railway museum last time, & she is past salvage now... 😟
 
Limechase said:
Sadly Mallard will never run again, spoke with people at York Railway museum last time, & she is past salvage now... 😟
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Any locomotive can be made to run again, if you throw enough money at it and the main frame is sound. It’s a bit like Grandpa’s bike that has had every bit replaced apart from the frame. Steam locos can have the main boiler replaced several times, brakes, instruments, wheels etc.

I think the problem comes when parts are just no longer available on the shelf (just as happened to the last flying Avro Vulcan) or out of the scrapyard and it would be uneconomic to try and re-engineer them from scratch, such as major castings.

There were 35 A4 Pacifics like Mallard built and a handful survive, the rest have been cannibalised or scrapped. A steam loco has an expected operational life based on safety like any other machine. And a steam loco being a pressure vessel on wheels has to pass the Pressure Vessels Inspection regulations on a regular basis.

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There was a lot of money made in the 60’s by scrap merchants when steam was phased out in favour of diesels, and quite a few steam locos running on heritage lines were saved out of those scrap yards. But the A4 Pacifics were just too big for most needs.
 
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Teleprinter at the bottom of the TV screen (either ITV/BBC) giving us the scores after the matches have finished. Sat there entranced.
 
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