Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on June 30, 2005 at 16:16:35 from 82.7.160.49 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: What happened to Rattletrap? posted by Owen Roberts on June 30, 2005 at 12:08:09:
In THOSE days?
Over 30 years later, in the winter of '62 (of which I may have written on TARBOARD before), I had to lower the roof of my convertible Morris Minor and put a stack of cushions on the seat so that I could drive almost standing, peering over the top of the windscreen, which was so iced as to be quite impossible to see through. There was a heater, but it didn't heat, at least in those conditions.
I don't think that a Policeman today would approve, especially on heavily iced roads.
I had always assumed that Mrs Blackett's hired car was what is legally called 'private hire', that is a taxi which you have to order in advance, and which would have a professional driver.
The summer before Mrs Blackett had taken the Great Aunt (and Nancy and Peggy) out in a horse drawn carriage. So did she even have Rattletrap at that time? Or did the GA just think a horse drawn carriage was more refined for a drive?