NOT WITH FLOWERS.
It is now the fashion to have flowers painted on molor-cars. As Harry Lauder sings, “I love a chassis” Whose polish shows the loving toil or hours. And now if one would own a car that’s classy. Say. it must be with flowers! Paint on its panels floral decorations. And radiant blooms exceeding chic and choice; Let there be stately lilies and carnations For him who rolls his Royce! The trim two-seater might have pansies on it; The saorcher should adopt the speedwell blue, And there should be upon the Ford’s poke bonnet. The modest violet, too! Only the poor pedestrian, whose cranium Gets badly biffed, 1 fear, won’t pause to think He should be gratified when some geranium Taxicab strikes him pink ! I Taney that he will not hymn its praises ; Instead, he’ll get this prayer from off his chest: “If you must put me underneath the daisies, No flowers by request !’* In certain lower-priced cars the splash pan is connected with the running board with ordinary roof nails. The board is laminated and when it gets wet a few times there is a tendency for the nails to pull loose. The Pan, separated from the board, will Bet up an annoying noise. Silencing it i-s a matter of using longer nails, or hotter still, screws.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 70, 14 June 1927, Page 11
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