Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. All are welcome to participate.
Below is a list of ‘33 Things Wot You Might Find in, on, or close to a factory or similar industrial facility’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if picket line was present it might appear as PCK TLN. Lathe would be LTH.
* Apostrophes are ignored and hyphens are treated as spaces
1. CR LCNNR
2. T RGD
3. TRPLL VS
4. MLSCVN GR
5. P RVTSDNG
6. MS CW HLYWR K
7. PR ST NSMTT NMTC
8. RFT PTSTTR CK
9. NDS TRLSPNG
10. STRBTR
11. RTDCR CHTC TR
12. SL GPTCR RR
13. CHRLCH PLN
14. RDRCH ST RVTR
15. HL THNDS FT YSS
16. T LN DDM KR
17. SKRS CHNDLR
18. STDW NST RK
19. MR LSBYD VRDMN CH
20. CRM FRDDLLR
21. NCN DSMLT RSTCK
22. SC RRBT
23. MNTNTT
24. RDFN DRS
25. SHPSTW RD
26. RB YLF TSSC RWN GBRC HRNG
27. DR HMSPRL FLR D
28. VR CSLT
29. NDLD D
30. BLTWG HR
31. PHS SYJW
32. SNGLGR DRLCTR CVR HDTR VL LNGCRN
33. T HFF TNML LNTHM DLTFR D
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hive foxer theme: British invasions (defoxed by Viscount)
autons (Viscount)
battle of dorking (Viscount, Phlebas, ylla)
flotille de boulogne (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
ghq line (ylla)
harald hardrada (Colonel_K)
horsell common (Colonel_K)
martello tower (Colonel_K, ylla)
perkin warbeck (Colonel_K)
pevensey (Colonel_K)
the swoop (Colonel_K)
volgans (Nutfield)
So much for 7am, but better late than never 🙂
(I’m working today anyway!)
9. INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE
31. PHOSSY JAW
23. MUNITIONETTE
7 – PRESTON’S MUTTON-O-MATIC
As seen in Wallace and Gromit – A Close Shave
33 – THE FIFTEEN MILLIONTH MODEL T FORD
25 – SHOP STEWARD
24 – EAR DEFENDERS
32 – SINGLE GIRDER ELECTRIC OVERHEAD TRAVELLING CRANE
5. PRIVATE SIDING?
30. BELT WEIGHER
15. HEALTH AND SAFETY … SS ?
A lot of missing letters for Assessment – ISSUE, perhaps
6. MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
8. ROOFTOP TEST TRACK
13. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
18. SIT DOWN STRIKE
12. SLAG POT CARRIER
20. CROMFORD DOLLAR – issued as a week’s wage for the workers in Richard Arkwright’s mill
19. MURALS BY EDVARD MUNCH – Freia chocolate factory in Oslo
ETA: 4. MULE SCAVENGER – lowliest and highly dangerous job for youngest children
22. something ROBOT ?
OSCAR ? – range of glazing robots
SCORE ? – intended for football (soccer)
SCOUR ?
S.C.A.R.A. – acronym for Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm, recognized by their two parallel joints which provide movement in the X-Y plane.
17. OSKAR SCHINDLER
1. CARLA CONNOR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Connor
3. TRIPLE ELVIS might have been made in The Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory), but it seems a bit tenuous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Elvis
Well, the criteria is “in, on, or close to” so as a Warhol product I reckon it’s right.
21. ANACONDA SMELTER STACK
28. VERUCA SALT
16. TOOL AND DIE MAKER
Remaining (e&oe):
2. T RGD
10. STRBTR
11. RTDCR CHTC TR
14. RDRCH ST RVTR
26. RB YLF TSSC RWN GBRC HRNG
27. DR HMSPRL FLR D
29. NDLD D
In case it helps the image is the plan of the Lackawanna Steel plant:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Lackawanna_steel_plant_1903.png
10 – OSTARBEITER
27 – DURHAM’S PURE LEAF LARD
https://slate.com/culture/2006/07/upton-sinclair-s-the-jungle.html
26 – RUBY LOFTUS SCREWING A BREECH RING
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/ruby-loftus-screwing-a-breech-ring-7110
2. TOUR GUIDE
– presumably an industrial heritage walk rather than while people are working (unless you’re Gregg Wallace)
Leaves:
11. RTDCR CHTC TR
14. RDRCH ST RVTR – – Roderic somebody
29. NDLD D – – Needle something
29 – NED LUDD
11. ART DECO ARCHITECTURE
Only 14 remaining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!
It’s certainly not it but I learned that the RICHEST RIVETER was John D. Rockefeller.
Well, if there are words as long as Architecture hiding in there then 14. might have Orchestra in the middle…
RED ORCHESTRA VTR
the game (Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad) does have a level set in the Red October Tractor Factory.
Aviator ? – would be slightly weird
It might’ve been Voter, but
Vote Kick -> Roman’s Behind
I think it’s missing a letter and should be RED ORCHESTRA VETERAN
N this time. Has anyone been keeping track of the omitted letters in case Roman’s trying to send a mesage. Mind you, they’d all be consonants. Hold on a second!
(consults Commodore L’s Guide to Signals)
Here we are
N = ‘I am taking in, or discharging, or carrying dangerous goods’
No, wait, that’s B.
‘I require a tug’
Oh! Hmmm. Ah! That’s Z.
N- November – ‘no (negative); or an abandonment in a sailing regatta’
If you can read this, Roman, and everything is ok perhaps next time JH (I am aground. I am not in danger.) or UW (I wish you a pleasant voyage.)
The aviator maybe:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harro_Schulze-Boysen
So is the word just AVIATOR? Or do the two things not go together?