Mr H. V. Morton, writing in the “Daily Herald’ 1 describes the following “attractoin” at Southend: “I wa(s not really surprised to find myself .sitting in A 1 Capone’s motor-car, holding one' of those noiseless mach-ine-guns which you sometimes .see on the films. It is an extraordinary cay. dl't is really a little fortress on pneumatic tyres. A 1 Capone fitted it out so that he might pass safely through the ranks of his many enemies. Its .windows of lin. thick plate-gla<ss could turn any bul'let. It is fitted: (with the horrible, hysterical New York police siren, so that, if hard put to it, the gangsters could clear the street of traffic and shoot ahead ■like an ambulance or a fire-engine., NAar, the driver is a powerful :.wirejless set that kept A 1 Capone posted in the lgtest, police. news,”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12080, 20 October 1933, Page 2
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