STALLING CAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 5

STALLING CAR

DRIVER’S PERPLEXITY

LARGE TOURER HOOKED ON

MELBOURNE, Dec. 18.

The proprietress of a golf-house, at a country holiday resort,’ after dining with friends in Toorak on Friday night, left in a small saloon car with a companion to attend a bridge party in tho city. They were late and the engine of the car labored in a mo3t exasperating way. It stalled every time its perplexed driver attempted to change into top gear. The car was doing almost everything that it should not do. Instead of running smoothly, it jerked along in a series of irregular frog-like hops, stalling persistently. Then the driver found to hor dismay that the steering was faulty, and that she could not turn out of Toorak road. An accident seemed imminent.

In disgust, the driver and her companion decided to travel to the city by tram. When they alighted from the car, they found, to their amazement, a large touring car hooked by its front bumper bar to the roar oftheir car. They had towed it all the way from Toorak. Fearing that they would be charged -with stealing the car, they informed the police immediately. The precaution was wise, for the owners of the car, who live next door to the house where the dinner party was held, had reported its disappearance, and the police were on the lookout for it.