License Plate Trivia Question

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December 5th, 2010 at 3:59:23 PM permalink

AZDuffman

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Quote: FleaStiff
I've no idea, but I wonder if it was really necessary. I'm told that it was illegal to slice bread in a bakery during the war so as to keep such metal available for the war effort, but in fact bread slicing machines were too weak to be of any use for the war effort. I'm also told that all that aluminum foil picked up from discarded chewing gum wrappers spent the war in a giant warehouse in Arizona. Always wondered if these were myths or not.

I heard the bread-slicing one before but you point is not correct. The bread-slicing machine itself would not have gone to war but rather the metal was needed. Any kind of metal was needed. An old department store in this town took down their brass-signs and put up ones half the size so the brass could go into bullets.

So maybe they convinced the bakeries to sell the machines or maybe you could slice until the unit needed sharpening?

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December 5th, 2010 at 4:15:24 PM permalink

EvenBob

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Quote: FleaStiff
I've no idea, but I wonder if it was really necessary. I'm told that it was illegal to slice bread in a bakery during the war so as to keep such metal available for the war effort,

I've seen old bread slicing machines that used fishing line to do the slicing. In fact, I think one of the first ones invented used catgut, like they had on old violins. You spin that stuff like a bandsaw blade and it'll cut your finger off clean.

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