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Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Jul 3, 2008 04:54
From 1909:-
"A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
So, no change then?
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Author: McKev (yay!)McKev (yay!) Date: Jul 3, 2008 22:16
"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:kpWdnQ8gC9xiIPHVRVnyggA@bt.com...> From 1909:-
>
> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors,
> this one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing
> to the snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should
> become Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make
> contribute pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker
> was Mr David Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
>
> So, no change then?
Well yes. Because not only are the old bangers being taxed to the hilt, so
are the new, "cleaner" ones.
McK.
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Author: DougDoug Date: Jul 3, 2008 22:21
On 3 Jul, 12:54, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> From 1909:-
>
> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
> one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
> snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
> Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
> pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
> Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
>
> So, no change then?
Obviously not. He didn't and nobody else has since. Though maybe, just
maybe, the rising price of oil might finally do the trick and make
motorists pay as much as they cost the country at long last.
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Author: SquashmeSquashme Date: Jul 4, 2008 01:16
On 3 Jul, 12:54, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> From 1909:-
>
> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
> one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
> snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
> Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
> pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
> Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
>
> So, no change then?
Another note to help explain it:-
http://tinyurl.com/6e4ozx
"EVERY AUTO HAS COST THOUSANDS IN ROADS; New York City Has to
Reconstruct 860 Miles of Macadam That Machines Have Destroyed." (1911)
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Author: Ed BangerEd Banger Date: Jul 4, 2008 07:13
>On 3 Jul, 12:54, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>> From 1909:-
>>
>> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
>> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
>> one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
>> snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
>> Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
>> pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
>> Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
>>
>> So, no change then?
>
>Obviously not. He didn't and nobody else has since. Though maybe, just...
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Author: BrianWBrianW Date: Jul 4, 2008 07:23
On 4 Jul, 15:13, Ed Banger bangladesh.com> wrote:>>On 3 Jul, 12:54, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> From 1909:-
>
>>> "A few years ago two gentlemen were dining at a Shrewsbury Hotel when a
>>> lumbering car was driven into the yard. Like many of the early motors, this
>>> one was neither silent nor odourless, and one of the diners, pointing to the
>>> snorting machinery, observed to his friend, "If ever I should become
>>> Chancellor of the Exchequer, those are the things I should make contribute
>>> pretty generously to the finances of the country". The speaker was Mr David
>>> Lloyd George, now the Chancellor".
> ...
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