Mallet - Mallay Comments

Note. Anatole Mallet was a railway engine builder specialising in articulated locomotives. Coming from Switzerland his name is properly pronounced to rhyme with 'ballet' but in the US and to some extent elsewhere it is pronounced as spelt. A 'Garratt' (rhymes with carrot) is another form of articulated locomotive with a 'top half' (cab and boiler) slung between two 'bottoms' (cylinders and wheels) .

A Swiss engine builder named Mallet
Took a boat to Dover from Callet
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