QUEEN’S CAR BREAKS DOWN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 11

QUEEN’S CAR BREAKS DOWN

TIMELY ROADSIDE HELP Mr and Mrs Percy Titmous, of Cambridge, England, was driving away from the town a few weeks ago in their 10 horse-power motor-car when they saw a limousine by the side of the road in the village of Milton. Mrs. Titmous, glancing at its occupants as she passed, made an exclamation. “There’s the Queen!” she cried. “Nonsense,” said he husband, as husbands do. “It was the Queen,” insisted Mrs Titmous, “and I believe her car’s broken down.” “Well, whoever it is, we’ll go back and ask if they want help,” said her husband. They went back; it really was Queen Mary. And her car had broken down. Lady Desborough and Lady Cynthia Colville were also in the Queen’s car. Lady Desborough got out, and, thanking Mr. Titmous for his offer, said the Queen would be glad if he could drive her into Cambridge. The Queen, got into the small car and sat beside Mrs. Titmous on the back seat. “She talked to me of all sorts of things,” said Mrs Titmous afterward. “I was amazed when she actually got into our car. So was my husband, and he drove extremely carefully all the way.” Mr Titmous said it was pleasant to feel that one motorist could give a helping hand to another, apart from the “other” being, in this case, the Queen. “She accepted the situation with such simplicity,” he said, “that ' she put us at our ease at once.”