Repetition (AT146)

I'm sure many blippers, of a certain age, will remember these devices and the great fun of a family photo show.  In our case complete with many repetitions of 'yes - it's the Rialto Bridge' as in my father's photos from his travels. 

Family history section: my father worked for Sandvik and had done a lot of work on the early thermionic valve controlled welding sets.  He would often say, "there is no point in making exotic steels if the customers can't weld it into something saleable."  He travelled to Sandvik plants in other parts of the world to give them a start.  Quite how this involved so many images from Venice is beyond me, although Sandvik did have places all over Europe by then :-)

The blip subject emerged from the back of a wardrobe in Gill's mum's house while we were sorting through photographs and slides. I say sorting, in reality, we have boxed them up and will go through them at our house in a few weeks.

None of what follows has anything to do with the blip - just me having a rant :-)
           Sandvik had their start when they had the good sense to listen to Henry Bessemer, a British engineer, and get the first commercially viable version of his steel convertor running.   By the time my father was working for them, they had moved into specialist steels having decided they couldn't compete with the likes of British Steel in making basic steel products,  so they concentrated on the more exotic, expensive, profitable types ... and the rest, as we British often say about our industries,  is history :-)

Thanks to Ingeborg for hosting Abstract Thursday.