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TIL When London Underground’s first escalators were installed in 1911 a one-legged man – William ‘Bumper’ Harris-was employed to ride the escalators and demonstrate to a sceptical public the safety of the new machines. Ironically he had lost his leg in an earlier underground accident.

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