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"Flushed With Pride" celebrates the life and times of Thomas Crapper, the man who revolutionised the nation's water closets and was plumber By Appointment to Edward VII and George V. First published 40 years ago, it achieved cult status on both sides of the Atlantic. This new edition has been updated by Simon Kirby, Managing Director of Thomas Crapper & Co. and is reissued for the delectation of loo readers everywhere.
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Wallace Macdonald Reyburn OBE was born in New Zealand on the third of July, 1913. During the Hitler war he worked as a reporter for a Canadian newspaper. He was nearly killed during the Dieppe raid and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his part in the battle and subsequent reportage. His book about that event, Rehearsal for Invasion, was a best-seller, as were some of his other works which covered such unrelated subjects as rugby football, lavatories, David Frost and brassieres. This last, entitled Bust Up - The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra caused considerable confusion, especially in America and Canada. Flushed with Pride had been a great success and, as he could not think of any other famous inventor possessed of an amusingly-appropriate surname, he was inspired to create one. The story of Otto Titzling was clearly fictitious; unfortunately it was published in the same format as Flushed With Pride and contained similar illustrations and prose. This caused many American readers to assume that the biography of Mr. Crapper was also a joke which later led to extended correspondences in the letters pages of several publications. Thomas Crapper was dismissed as a hoax in various North American books and dictionaries of the early 1970s, but thankfully this mistake is rarely made to-day. Wallace Reyburn was very pleased when he learned that Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd. had survived. When he died at the age of 87 in 2001 his passing was justly marked by extensive and illustrated obituaries in, amongst others, The Times and the Daily Telegraph
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Format:Hardcover
A friend recommended the original edition of this amusing little book a couple of years after it came out, but I never managed to find a copy. I was unaware of the second edition, and now that is no longer available new either. So I was very pleased to find this while emptying out my mother's house - I didn't know she had it. I can certainly pass on my friend's recommendation. The history of Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the modern flush toilet and privy provider to royalty deserves a place in every closet in the land.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Captivating anecdotal stories
23 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
An interesting look at the history of not only how the modern flush toilet was developed, but how modern septic systems evolved from the nightmarish waste systems of the past. Anecdotal stories give a captivating closeup perspective. The author tells the story in a mature and proper way befitting England's premier Royal Plumber.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun, but not true!
21 April 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a fun book, but it is not history. Do a Web search for "crapper" at snopes.com or in the wikipedia for discussion.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
An absolute must read!
20 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
We use it every day, several times a day -- the humble flush toilet keeps our homes clean, safe, and odor-free. This amusing little book has the wondrous history of this most wonderful and humble of household objects. You'll never look at your toilet in the same way again.
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