From: Adam Flinton 

Frank Haber wrote:

> You know, the really old farts here should do an essay on the vanished smell
> of the bad old pre-post-industrial age.
>
> o sulphured bunker oil.
>
> o Chromate pickling baths.
>
> o High-carcinogen oil-based printing ink.
>
> o Hot PCB
>
> o Hot wrought iron with oil on it.
>
> o The sweet tailpipe smell of a clean-burning (but incomplete combustion)
12:1
> gas engine on leaded fuel (see any classic car rally for a reminder - they
get
> it somewhere).
>
> o Leaded gas 2-stroke model airplane engines.
>
> o Red-lead oil-based paint going on a bridge on an August day.
>
> o (for Brits) Coke ovens; bitumen burning; sulphurous coal burning; hot motor
> oil on a sidevalve engine's exhaust manifold.
>
> o And the winner - the Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce plant in NJ -
> 2-year-old rotting anchovies are the magic ingredient.
>

But nowt about the smell of coal burning?

Adam

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