{"id":6097,"date":"2012-11-16T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-2-5-tonne-cup-of-tea\/"},"modified":"2012-11-16T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:11:00","slug":"struth-2-5-tonne-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/11\/struth-2-5-tonne-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! 2.5 tonne cup of tea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With\u00a0 Princess Diana at his side, Prince Charles (R) bends over to get a\u00a0 better view of the Rolls Royce automobile that sits perched atop British\u00a0 Wedgwood teacups during a visit to J.C. Penney’s Department Store in\u00a0 the Springfield Mall on November 11, 1985. Standing alongside the\u00a0 Princess is William Howell, chairman of J.C. Penney’s, and standing next\u00a0 to the car is Bob Biagi, a Rolls Royce dealer. (UPI Photo\/Larry\u00a0 Rubenstein\/Files)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that back in 1970 England’s Wedgwood porcelain company left newspaper readers agape when it published a picture of a 2.5 tonne Rolls-Royce balancing on four of the company’s finest bone china cups.
The stunt was to prove the strength of its bone china, but when they tried to repeat it in Canada some years later for the opening of a new shopping outlets in Vancouver, it met with somewhat embarrassing results \u2013 they broke eight of their best bone china cups in front of TV and newspaper cameras before abandoning the effort.<\/p>\n

Wedgwood have since refined the process of raising a Roller and letting it settle slowly onto just four cups when celebrating the opening of new stores in Britain, Europe, the USA and Canada.<\/p>\n

(For the technically interested, bone china gets its strength from the addition of 50% incinerated animal bone ash to traditional China stone and industrial clay.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With\u00a0 Princess Diana at his side, Prince Charles (R) bends over to get a\u00a0 better view of the Rolls Royce automobile that sits perched atop British\u00a0 Wedgwood teacups during a visit to J.C. Penney’s Department Store in\u00a0 the Springfield Mall on November 11, 1985. Standing alongside the\u00a0 Princess is William Howell, chairman of J.C. Penney’s, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}