ROYAL SCOT JOKE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12078, 18 October 1933, Page 2

ROYAL SCOT JOKE

U.& AMUSED BY THE "PEANUT” WHISTLENEW YORK, August 10. Jt takes more than the wonder buildings of New York and Chicago to daunt Mr. William Gilbertson and Mr. John Jackson, engine-driver and fireman of the London Midland and Scottish' express Royal Scot, which they accompanied to the Chicago World Fair. Coming- on a- brief vis’-t to New York as "the guests of the Pennsylvania- Railway, tho two Britons have returned to Chicago decidedly critical .of all they have seen. On a- steamer trip around Manhattan the two men sniffed at tho new George Washington bridge which spans the Hudson, and said that the Tower Bridge was more picturesque.

Gilbertson drove- the American "Broadway Limited” express from Chicago to New York, but said that be liked his own engine better. Jackson' was somewhat aghast to find, the automatic stoker deprived him of a chance of showing his skill* What seems to have nettled Gilber'tson most since lie arrived here is the amusement Americans derive from his engine’s whistleWith a shake of bis bead b c said: "The fikst, time L blew it in Chicago someone yelled ‘Peanuts!’ ” ,