ANYONE SEEN MY PUMP?

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28554, 7 April 1958, Page 10

ANYONE SEEN MY PUMP?

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“Everywnere in India you see people ndmg bicycles. You know, that as one sign of ar. increasing stanoa’d of iivingr They are progressing from the pedestrian age to use bicycle age- - • Mr Nash, on his return from abroad. Quite dearly. Sir. it is too soon To talk of Rockets to the Moon, When Millions have not reached a Stage Much past the Old Pedestrian Age Poor Plodders on their native Earth. Deemed to Pedestrfanism from Birth. Wno watch with wondering, wistful Eye The opulent Bicycle flash by. As maybe you. or maybe I Watching Detroit’s most costly ModeL AH Fins and Chromium Twiddle-twaddle. More Dignity, if less Celerity. Attends great India’s Prosperity Mount. Nehru! Mount! Pedal that Bike! What Rajah’s Rolls was ever ’ike This graceful Frame, these twinkling Wheels? Mount. Nehru! Tell us how it feels. Who knows, while India’s Millions press Onward to bike-oome Blessedness (While Waiter hails an Age new-found "Pandit, your back Wheel's going round!”). If in these car-infested Isles We may not see those lordly Smiles Fade from a few road-hogging Faces And anxious Shadows take their piaces? And many a four-wheeled Parvenu Quite pleased to push around on Two? So spins the Whirligig of Time. Wliiie Sputniks bleep and Rockets climb. While Markets creak and Funds collapse . . . You think I’m fooling. Sir? Perhaps Fate may be kind, no Lightning strike? • Trust Walter Nash and oil your Bike*