BUS BELL-CORD
Sir, —What is the fascination of the bus bell-cord? Why it is “that between every stop three to four - clangs are heard? Surely anyone who has sat near the driver knows that the slightest touch of the cord warns him that someone wishes to alight. Once should be enough, but, oh no, old people, tetrifled that they will miss their stop, jerk savagely at the cord even after someone has pulled it. Mothers seem to think they are educating junior by letting him tug the cord. Junior likes it and always gives it one for luck. I think some women have competitions to see who can pull it the hardest. One day the cord will snap. When the buses were new allowances dould be made, but surely the novelty has worn off by now. So from today—one ring, please.—Yours, etc., .. R.M.S. August 25, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27128, 26 August 1953, Page 7
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