THE ADMIRAL'S "SCOOTER."
If anyone should sec, late at nigS,. or in the we sma' hours, a mercurial figures apparently fluttering a few inches above ground through the deserted streets of the.. West End, making for Whitehall the "Evening Standard" gives warning; that there will be no need to capture this rara avis. It will be a distinguished British Admiral making for the 'Admiralty on a 20mile an.hour "scooter." To give, the machine its -.proper name it is an "Eveready Autoped," the latest thing in American get-abouts. The Admiral in question, called up for important matters at all hours' of the night, is away on his "scooter" in the twinkle of an eye. It is the last thing in official live wirism, and its possessor believes that others will come. "Why, all the girls in America have them," he says with enthusiasm.
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Taihape Daily Times, 31 August 1918, Page 5
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