TEN THOUSAND APRIL FOOLS.
A TRAM CAR QUEUE HOAXED. Birmingham holiday-makers will long remember April’s Fool Day, 1929. The Easter Monday holiday crowd waiting for tramcars to convey them to the ’Lickey Hills, a popular local beauty spot about ten miles from Birmingham, was so great that from early morning queues 760 yards long were waiting. When the crowd w.as at its thickest, about lunch time, a man in a blue serge suit and bowler hat passed down the queues and informed the waiting crowd that, to relieve the congestions, the corporation had decided to run omnibuses from the Town Hall. The price for adults, he added, would be the same -as on the tramcars, but children would be carried free. Ten thousand people flocked to the Town Hall, only to be told that there were no omnibuses. Then they remembered it was April 1. The man in the bowler hat, in tho meantime, had obtained a front seat on a tramcar to the Lickey Hills.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 161, 8 June 1929, Page 4
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166TEN THOUSAND APRIL FOOLS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 161, 8 June 1929, Page 4
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