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Are you surprised? Those are "iron lungs" of Guinness and there was carousing for months afterwards and the journo's were the leaders in the field! Seriously it really is a surprise that there is no mention in the papers, big event then and now!

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,650005,750028,7,9 Down's Bog Crossing/46th Mile Box was between Killucan Station and Baltrasna Crossing. www.industrialheritageireland.info/TikiWiki/tiki-index.ph... There is another NLI photo on IrishRailwayNews irnirishrailwaynews.yuku.com/topic/2203#.TzkKbVGRKSo

Swordscookie That's what I would have thought, but I tried a range of wide and narrow search terms and came up empty! Are you being poetic, or is/was "iron lungs" a nickname for the Guinness barrels?

When they changed over to aluminium from wood there were a number of stories in the news of people who were being kept alive in "iron lungs" which did the breathing for them and so the metal kegs became known as "iron lungs as a result. I see that master of research blackpoolbeach has come up with more information on the incident including some of your photographs!

blackpoolbeach I know this is not in quite the right spot, but I find it very difficult to get co-ordinates from these OSI maps (brilliant as they are!). Do you know how to get lat and long from them that will suit any normal map, like here on Flickr or on Google Maps? Their X and Y do not compute with me, I'm afraid... :(

Boeing 247D DZ203 c/n 1726 ex NC13344, CF-TBA and RCAF 7655. This famous aircraft, one of eight bought the British Purchasing Commission for Canada, was used to develop the ILS system, as well as airborne intercept radar. Per Phil Butler's 'Air Arsenal north America': "One of the Canadian purchases was later shipped to England (in July) 1941 where it was sued for early airborne radar experiments. The fuselage was capacious enough to house the bulky experimental radar sets and the Boeing was used to develop Airborne Interception (AI) radar for use in night fighters. Later it was used for the development of Instrument Landing Systems until being scrapped some time after the end of the war. This was c/n 1726 ex NC13344, CF-TBA and RCAF 7655 before becoming DZ203 with the TRE at Defford. It was was finally scrapped in August 1947 at No 34 MU, Sleap, reportedly after being damaged in its hangar at Defford during winter storms in late in 1946." There is a book written about DZ203 which I have on order, but it is shipping from the UK and has not yet arrived. "Top Secret Boeing" by Bob Shaw.