THEY WALKED
MOTORS TOO EXCITING
LONDON, Ist August,
An eventful journey befell the Eev. Morris Bold, a Wesleyan minister, travelling home with liis wife from a holiday in Cornwall, to Barnet. When they reached Whitchurch their motor broke down and they hired another, which also broke down. A motor coach travelling to London picked them up, but the driver lost his way. Mr. Bold piloted him, and with his wife then took a taxi to Barnet. They had reached Park road, where they live beyond the bottom of a steep hill, when the taxi-driver shouted that the brakes were not acting. Mr. Bold dircctod him to steer straight for a field, but the taxi crashed into a gate and came to a standstill. Nobody was hurt, but tho Bolds decided to walk the rest of the wajr home,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 41, 16 August 1930, Page 9
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138THEY WALKED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 41, 16 August 1930, Page 9
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