Some more items from the In the News section of Motor magazine in the 1930s…

September 27, 1937:

Is the road a cul-de-sac? No, it’s a tarred road.

March 1, 1938:

Heard in the court: “How did you know he was a genuine mechanic?”

“He got straight out of the car, produced a hammer, and knocked the back of the car into the air.”

Solicitor: “What was the condition of the road?”

Witness: “I couldn’t say, sir. It was two months ago and things may have changed since then.”

Police witness: “We were timing the speed of the defendant’s car and were 70 miles behind it.” Something wrong here.

July 12, 1938: Clerk at Highgate police court: “You are summoned for exceeding the speed limit in a built-up area. Are you guilty or not guilty?”

Motorist: “It’s not my fault it was built up.”

Another column in Motor magazine was You’ll be interested to know. Here are some items:

in the September 20, 1938 edition:

Driver reporting stolen car: “…and it has a nymph on the  radiator cap.”

P.C. (late of Hendon College): “Now, sir, is it a dryad, a naiad, or simply an oread?”

-See Motor magazine, which was a weekly UK magazine that ran from 1903 to 1988.

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