During 1971-72, spare Type 4s on other regions enabled the whole class to be sidelined, with Class 43s going first.

In these circumstances, part or none of the tied grant-in-kind might be treated by the inclusion approach.

Memories held by an older generation faded—memories of concertinas used in twilight dances on deck under a tropical sky or of Royal Navy soldiers dancing a hornpipe to its sound—and succeeding generations saw only Captain Pugwash’s “Tom the Cabin Boy,” fictional Disney pirates, and Tinseltown crooners with fake squeezeboxes.

I looked over at the man driving the meat wagon in which I was currently a court-required passenger and said, ever the fellow armed with a witty retort: Huh?