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On my first birthday, I was presented by my uncles with a real steam engine of German make, with lots of lines. My earliest memory is of crawling after the engine, which was emitting a delicious smell of methylated spirit oil and steam. On succeeding birthdays Uncles Tom, Peter and Harold always presented me with additional lines, signals and points.