THE TELL-TALE CHALK MARK
Those uninitiated Yin the: wiles of traffic inspectors may have wondered how those officers detectcars which have been parked too long, and they may • have visualised the use -'• of an elaborate system involving stopwatches and note books. But the procedure is really quite simple and needs only a' piece of chalk and a watch. On one tire of each of a line of -parked vehicles the traffic inspector .chalks a little white mark. . If parking in that area is. limited to twenty minutes, back he. returns to this row, perhaps some thirty minutes later. Any car still there which has a chalk mark on its tire has obviously been there too long, and' then out comes the notebook and pencil as a prelude, perhaps, to further proceedings. ~As two ■or three revolutions of the wheel will obliterate the chalk mark, there "is no I fear of any car carrying its tell-tale mark from one parking place to another and thus unfairly testifying against the owner.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 4
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169THE TELL-TALE CHALK MARK Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 4
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