Mot slutet av Trollkarlens nephew visar sig den första kungen och drottningen vara:
Frank, a London hansom cab driver, and his wife Helen.
De transporterades från Edwardian London, så de skulle båda ha varit bekanta med 1900-talets teknik, inklusive mekaniska symaskiner . (Speciellt drottningen, som hade blivit uppvuxen i en tid då kvinnorna i hennes sociala klass gjorde kläder till sina familjemedlemmar, eller åtminstone reparerade eller justerade köpte eller handklädda kläder.) Vid någon tid är kungen och drottningen kommer att behöva nya kläder (särskilt eftersom de inte fick chans att packa), och det är vettigt att de skulle nämna den praktiska arbetsbesparande enheten som hjälper.
Så vem gör symaskinerna? Dvärgarna är de mest sannolika kandidaterna (djärvt tillagda):
“Carry him aside and lay him down,” said Aslan. “Now, Dwarfs! Show your smith-craft. Let me see you make two crowns for your King and Queen.”
More Dwarfs than you could dream of rushed forward to the Golden Tree. They had all its leaves stripped off, and some of its branches torn off too, before you could say Jack Robinson. And now the children could see that it did not merely look golden but was of real, soft gold. It had of course sprung from the place where the sovereigns had fallen out of Uncle Andrew’s pocket when he was turned upside down; just as the silver tree had grown up from the half-crowns. From nowhere, as it seemed, piles of dry brushwood for fuel, a little anvil, hammers, tongs, and bellows were produced. Next moment (how those Dwarfs loved their work) the fire was blazing, the bellows were roaring, the gold was melting, the hammers were clinking. Two Moles, whom Aslan had set to dig (which was what they liked best) earlier in the day, poured out a pile of precious stones at the Dwarfs’ feet. Under the clever fingers of the little smiths two crowns took shape—not ugly, heavy things like modern European crowns, but light, delicate, beautifully shaped circlets that you could really wear and look nicer by wearing. The King’s was set with rubies and the Queen’s with emeralds.
Det är rimligt att anta att de begåvade dvärgarna bara behövde en överblick från kungen eller drottningen för att kunna utarbeta en design. De kan till och med ha utvecklat en liten industri med molen.