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:::*It's a play on a "pendulum spring." Informally, "to spring" can mean "to pay for; treat someone to." [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 12:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 
:::*It's a play on a "pendulum spring." Informally, "to spring" can mean "to pay for; treat someone to." [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 12:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 
::::*OK, that's an explanation, but I think the meaning is too obscure and that we need a different hook. [[User:Cwmhiraeth|Cwmhiraeth]] ([[User talk:Cwmhiraeth|talk]]) 12:32, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
 
::::*OK, that's an explanation, but I think the meaning is too obscure and that we need a different hook. [[User:Cwmhiraeth|Cwmhiraeth]] ([[User talk:Cwmhiraeth|talk]]) 12:32, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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:* '''ALT1''': ...that in 1937 several aeronautical engineers sprung a '''[[Pendulum car|pendulum]]''' on the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]]? <small>Source: "New Type Rail Coach Tested". ''Los Angeles Times''. December 23, 1937. p. A3; "It's New 'Floating' Coach". ''San Bernardino County Sun''. December 7, 1941. p. 7</small>
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::* New hook proposed, keeping with the idea of the first but with a more common meaning of sprung. [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 12:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
  
 
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Pendulum car

Created by Mackensen (talk). Self-nominated at 18:07, 18 March 2017 (UTC).

  • Symbol question.svg This article is new enough and long enough. The article is neutral and Earwig detected no problems. I find the hook quite incomprehensible - is this an American versus British English problem, I wonder? Let's ask Template:Ping what he thinks of it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:30, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
  • It's a play on a "pendulum spring." Informally, "to spring" can mean "to pay for; treat someone to." Mackensen (talk) 12:00, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
  • OK, that's an explanation, but I think the meaning is too obscure and that we need a different hook. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:32, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
  • ALT1: ...that in 1937 several aeronautical engineers sprung a pendulum on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway? Source: "New Type Rail Coach Tested". Los Angeles Times. December 23, 1937. p. A3; "It's New 'Floating' Coach". San Bernardino County Sun. December 7, 1941. p. 7
  • New hook proposed, keeping with the idea of the first but with a more common meaning of sprung. Mackensen (talk) 12:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)