THE BENZINIAN PERIOD

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 106, 1 November 1930, Page 13

THE BENZINIAN PERIOD

"Man," writes Mr. Ken Alexander in itlie "Haihvays Magazine," has reached the stage where he views life through a windscreen; the future is wrapped in gasoline, but through the mists of monoxide I see a bowserised biped boasting balloon lungs and an eye where his hat used to be, for the purpose of overhead observation. The infant of this benzinion period will be born with baby 'balloons' on the hips in place of pedals, and will wear two-wheel brakes on his undercarriage. ■ He will converse in a series of honks and boots, and will breakfast at a bowser. Imagine the touching picture of the infant Ben Zino clashing to his mother's mudguard at forty miles to the gallon, and uttering little honks of baby giee: ' Little Ben Zino come honk me . your horn, Your headlights arc dim and your covers are worn, I very much fear if your chassis gets weak, • . » You'll be under.the scrap-pile all of a heap. ( Thus the two- thousand-and-thirty model mother will apply the maternal brake to her little one-seatcr, when, he essays to break the bylaws."