HONKERING HERO LAID TO REST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21539, 11 January 1932, Page 2

HONKERING HERO LAID TO REST

Here lies a Motor Car, --t' '* Born 1900, Smashed 1931. fjjri It was too tired even to retyre. This would be a fitting epitaph for a ? tombstone that may be erected just outside the confines of Plymouth Cemetery. Beneath it will be all that remains of ... a car for 30 years the faithful servant of Dr Francis Pearse, of Plymouth. “It is no use to me now, but I can , no more sell it than a man can part with a faithful old. horse,” the doctor said to a Sunday Chronicle reporter. “ I have arranged w r ith a builder to have it buried on land adjoining Plymouth Cemetery, after having it battered to pieces. A friend of mine baa pro- A.: mised to pronounce a funeral oration. The car is a4} h.p. Benz. It was the - v first motor vehicle ever driven through the streets of Plymouth. It was last used in 1928 in the London to Brighton race for a half-crown bet. Dr Pearse might have kept hia oldtimer still longer, but he refuses to pay ; the annual rate of £3 10s levied by the -- City Council on the lean-to garage in which he has housed it. • ■ * ■ He has offered the car to the local museum, but they have no room for it.