The Channel Tunnel won't join up!
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The Channel Tunnel won't join up! 1990

The News of The World reported that French engineers insistence on using metric on their blueprints meant that the two tunnels being dug from opposite sides of the channel would miss each other by 14 feet, costing an extra £14 billion to fix!


Workmen working on the 32 mile-long Channel Tunnel at Dover.

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