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Brums

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In Stock Exchange phraseology this means the “London and North-Western Railway shares.” The Brum, i.e. the Birmingham line.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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