Early Motoring Cartoons from Punch magazine

Friend. "Going about thirty, are we? But don't you run some risk of being pulled up for exceeding the legal pace?" Owner. "Not in a sober, respectable-looking car like this. Of course, if you go about it in a blatant, brass-bound, scarlet-padded, snorting, foreign affair, like that, you are bound to be dropped on, no matter how slow you go!"

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Friend. "Going about thirty, are we? But don't you run some risk of being pulled up for exceeding the legal pace?" Owner. "Not in a sober, respectable-looking car like this. Of course, if you go about it in a blatant, brass-bound, scarlet-padded, snorting, foreign affair, like that, you are bound to be dropped on, no matter how slow you go!"