Glimmer man
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glimmer-man-189-12075541
title:
Glimmer man
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A glimmer man was a somewhat pejorative name unofficially, but almost universally, applied to inspectors who were employed by the Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Company, the Cork Gas Consumers Company and other supply companies in the smaller towns and places in Ireland to detect the use of gas in restricted periods during the years of the Emergency in Ireland from March 1942 and in some places as late as 1947. The term derived from the copy of advertisements published in the media and on po
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimmer_man
date created:
2004-11-01T21:35:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T10:10:24Z
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