Woman Driver...
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LONDON, July 7. It had to happen. When designers put engines at the backs of cars, someone was bound to get confused. An explosion and a cloud of smoke yesterday announced that the moment had arrived in London.
Traffic was held up in Kensington as smoke belched from the engine of a shining new car. A pool of petrol blazed in the road. After firemen had dealt with the flames, the car’s woman driver sadly explained what had happened. As a professional cardelivery driver, she was taking the “Imp” from Southampton to London when she ran out' of petrol.
She fetched a can of petrol, but her professional knowledge did not extend to the lay-out of the rear-engined car.
“This looked a likely place,” she said, touching the oil filter cap at the back of the car. “I pulled off the cap, saw a hole—so I poured.
“When I started the car there was a loud bang and smoke.”
The woman had . poured petrol into the engine sump. When she pressed the starter it caused an explosion. Firemen showed her the petrol cap at the front, of the car.
“Oh, 1 thought that was the radiator,” she said.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30487, 8 July 1964, Page 17
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