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Thatcher made the then publicly-owned British Railways sell off their fleet of vans, for the sake of privatisation, in about 1981. It would still be possible to take a crate to the nearest parcel office and collect it from another parcel office, but that requires you to do the heavy lifting.
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I tried to touch up the article and included several trunk pictures that are part of my personal collection to create a more comprehensive trunk compendium. I also added a section on "cabin trunks" and one on "oak slat trunks". As I obtain more information, I will try to broaden the content of this
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In slightly earlier times it was possible to travel by train with a cabin trunk, but that required the help of railway porters to put it into and remove it from the guard's van, and the use of trolleys: all of which seem to be extinct. The only
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Vitor or vietor was Latin for trunk-maker (e.g. Plautus Rudens, ca 200BC). This is because it's also Latin for basket-maker (vieo = plait). Indeed vidulus is Latin for trunk. This implies they had a thought for making trunks lightweight for travelling. Vince
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