THE GIPSIES’ MOTOR
MECHANISATION OF THE TRADE. CANVAS IN LONDON STREETS. (By Air Mail—Special to News.) London, June 27. In a quiet suburban street to-day suddenly appeared, out of the blue, an old saloon car. It instantly rivetted attention, for over the bonnet and from each window hung new carpets as gorgeous of hue as Joseph’s coat. The car drew up, and out stepped a whole gipsy family. Mt. Petulengro himself acted as chauffeur. The rest, who included an ancient dame in quilted skirt, a swarthy matron in jet satin, a buxom, bold-eyed flapper and two young braves as lean as hounds and keen as hawks, proceeded on a house-to-house canvass with carpets and mops. They looked a little motor-conscious to me, but quickly got through their round, and, having exhausted the market, reassembled themselves in the saloon car. With a defiant honk to scare away the outraged shade of George Borrow, off they drove to fresh suburbs and bungalows new. Apparently even the gipsies, like the British cavalry, are now being mechanised.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1935, Page 7
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