"SHINING PISTON RODS."
Do novelists—more particularly those who always write of chauffeur "heroes' —ever use a car? It seems improbable, otherwise they would surely learn that cars do not possess "shining piston rods," nor does the driver "reverse his engine by throwing back the power regulator lever." And why, one wonders, do novelists' motorists always behave like circus acrobats? They. "leap ( into the tonneau" and press down the "power treadle," at the same moment by an adroit movement "gripping the gearshaft, bringing all her cylinders into action." Furthermore, all chauffeurs in novels do everything with a "monkey wrench" ; they never use a spanner.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 11
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103"SHINING PISTON RODS." Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1919, Page 11
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