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08 May 2008

Cranes can appear anywhere at any time, often in the most unexpected of places. IC reader Eric Michotte, a director at Belgian concrete company SA Straming, saw these two vintage toy cranes at a market in Le Touquet in France. Neither are branded but Michotte says the clockwork toys were still in full working order.

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