Where is this?

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  1. AndySGray
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    Yes indeed a most excellent and challenging puzzle.

    I did briefly consider another semi-nuclear possibility, deuterium production (heavy water) - but I discounted it as there was only the single set of power lines in the picture (as far as I could see) and I figured this was not enough for that, plus I was on an aboriginal track for the carving and I believe the guys down under are somewhat averse to all things nuclear.
     
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    I'll pass for now. I haven't got any good ideas at the moment. I'll Take a peek at my parent's photo albums in a while and see if I can come up with something pre web.
     
  4. ImaginaryNumber
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    This shouldn't be too hard for some of you, even if you don't use Google Image search.

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    When you bore out your Yamaha 2-stroke as much as that, it does invalidate the warranty.

    Is this the one from the time of Herbert Hoover and Ramsay MacDonald?
     
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    Is that an inside mike he is using, if so it looks like he is testing the expansion or wear of a boiler tube. Or even spooky, the cooling tube of a nuclear reactor.

    Or most probably none of the above.

    Poida
     
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    AFAIK, it is modern. Certainly the photo itself is modern.
     
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    You're right. He is using an internal micrometer to measure the wear of the bore.
     
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    I was thinking of the 1932 B&W diesel in Copenhagen, 1400 tons and 15MW, the biggest Diesel in the world for over 30 years, it was still generating electrical power for the city 'till fairly recently and is still available as a standby generator for emergencies.

    The ports in the cylinder wall mean it is is two stroke diesel, so are we talking a Marine engine or is it land based?
     
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    I actually don't know the specifics of the engine, but it apparently is a marine engine. Must really slurp the fuel!

    Reasons for Cylinder Liner Wear and Ways to Measure it | Marine Insight

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    The Third picture is not of the same place - it is a bonus question - There is a very special property which links the two locations, what is it?
     

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    The first two images show the prehistoric monument at Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland, with the spiral carved 'entrance stone.' working on the link to the third picture.
     
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    This is the best I could come up with :)

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    THE NEWGRANGE CATACOMBS
    It is whispered among halitosis stricken farmers that the ancient monuments of Ireland are all joined by an elaborate series of underground tunnels. Let us uncork Newgrange's neolithic manhole and see exactly what is hidden beneath that suggestive grassy knoll . . .
     
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    ROTFL - that is actually way better than what I came up with as a link...

    Though is also quite close to that answer too - if the train at the bottom had left London Paddington on the old "Gods Wonderful Railway" route, it would have passed through the famous 'third picture' tunnel - sadly the folklore has recently been debunked - it actually happens a couple of days earlier :(
     

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    Aaah - that's enough of a clue!

    We have Box tunnel, near Bath, on the Great Western Railway; engineered by Brunel. It had been supposed that the tunnel was aligned so that at sunrise on Brunel's birthday, a ray of light would pass along the tunnel, as it does in the entrance tunnel to Newgrange, at Winter Solstice.

    Sadly, the Box tunnel story appears to be a near miss, and thus a myth.
     
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