CONSTABLE “FALLS IN”
STOPS WRONG CAR THE KING’S SIGNALS Plebeian automobile owners have discovered that the two bright blue flambeaux with which King George’s automobiles are fitted enable his Majesty to get through the thickest traffic jams as easily as a fire truck. As a result the metropolitan police are kept jumping by the appearance of a multitude of cars similarly fitted. It is being whispered that one police constable, angry at being fooled into standing at attention so often while the “king” passed, decided to stop the next car so fitted and give the owner a good “bawling out.” But he picked the wrong car. It was the King’s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 7
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110CONSTABLE “FALLS IN” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 45, 16 May 1927, Page 7
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