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Masters Of The Post

Recounts a series of tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963.
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Recounts a series of tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park & how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

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Computer - A programmable electronic machine which stores and manipulates data.
Mail - Or post is a service for transmitting physical objects or letters between locations
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti

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