Some more items from the section In the News, from the pages of Motor magazine…

May 4, 1937:

Heard at Tottenham. Solicitor: “You take full responsibility for the car?”

Motorist: “Yes, I don’t think it knows what it’s up to half the time.”

Heard in the Courts: “What right have the police to say I did 39 m.p.h.? I am a bricklayer by trade.”

Presumably, undertakers are also above reproach.

October 4, 1938: During a church service recently three men stole the minister’s car.  The congregation were singing: “Simply Trusting Every Day.”

Cardiff’s Lord Mayor is to have a new car because he is unable to sit in the present one with his silk hat on.

Il faut souffrir pour etre beau. [You have to suffer to be beautiful.]

Solicitor: The constable says the road was dry.”

Motorist: “It was where he was standing. He’d got a great helmet on.”

February 7. 1939: Coroner: “Where did the car hit him?”

Doctor: “At the junction of the dorsal and cervical vertebrae.”

Juryman: “I’ve lived here for 50 years and I’ve never heard of any such place.”

June 20, 1939:

“The road bends to the right and if you don’t watch it, it will bend back again,” explained a witness at Tottenham Police Court.

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