HONKERING HERO
* Here lies,* Motor Car, V Born 1900; Smashed 1931. Jf-v 3 It was too tired even to re-tyre. • ' This would be a fitting epitaph for ' « tMnbstone that may be erected just jf* on the confines of Plymouth cemetery in England. Beneath it will be all that remains I'- of a car for 30 years the faithful servant of Dr Francis Pearse, of Plyi month. ■ “It is no use to me now, but I can ;han a man can part ild horse,” the doctor on Sunday Chronicle ive arranged with a it buried on land adi cemetery, after havo pieces. ih horse-power Benz, t iriotor vehicle ever the streets of Plyjsed in 1928 in the hton race for a halffht have kept his oldi2r, but he refuses to rate of £3 10s levied iiincil on the lean-to he had housed it. i the car to the local at body has no room
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3305, 4 June 1931, Page 8
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153HONKERING HERO Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3305, 4 June 1931, Page 8
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