From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward"  writes:   
      
   > In The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell mentions gas-pipe chairs as an   
   > example of the hideous products of mechanisation.  I was curious   
   > what these were.   
      
   Says the OED:   
      
     gas-pipe chair, a cantilever chair with legs and arms resembling   
     gas-pipes;   
      
   and its sole quotation is that very passage you mention.  That does   
   not call up a vivid picture.  Perhaps it was a tubular folding chair.   
      
   Likewise, Google brings up nothing but The Road to Wigan Pier.   
   Probably the things would be completely forgotten if Orwell had not   
   taken the trouble to insult them.  %^)   
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