To the Grave by Motorcar.
n- —■.» ■y Motor weddings are no novelK; ty, but the other day a motor ;e funeral was to be seen sweeping a along Balham High Road, London, at a level twelve miles an d hour. Silent was the cortege, save for one of two subdued *• toots of the horn. 6 First came the hearse, which d was improvised from a covered 1 and glazed passenger brake, in the interior of which the oak h coffin showed dimly. Behind j y came an open car filled with j wreaths of white flowers and e violets. Following were the j * mourners in eight or ten closed, I e dark-hued motors. So to the grave some dead- i a and-gore motorist was buried — i - by testamentary wish, no doubt —-at a speed at least comparable s with that demanded in life. 0 ; I ...
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 11 December 1914, Page 3
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145To the Grave by Motorcar. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 11 December 1914, Page 3
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