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Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:37 pm**

was browsing the web and found out that the death of TE Lawrence led to us all having crash helmets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cairns_(surgeon)

funny old world

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:04 pm**

An Aussi to blame then.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:21 pm**

Took best part of 40 years after he died before we were forced to wear them, though.

Samray wrote:An Aussi to blame then.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:00 am**

Another piece of trivia locked away for a rainy day (not that we've had many of those recently

, had to get another dig in)

Interesting though in an anorak kinda way.

Interesting - the debt we owe Lawrence of arabia