pdeaves
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An oft-repeated 'fact' concerns Brunel and Gooch deciding where to put Swindon works. The story is that one of them threw a sandwich and where it landed would be the chosen place. Now, that would have to be some throw! I suspect, but this is only speculation, that the story morphed out of the two gentlemen looking at a map; the sandwich being a convenient marker on the plan of what went where.