land-torpedoes

Updated: May 15, 2025

"Before Jones next door bought a motor-car he had very bitter feelings about motorists used to call them road-hogs, said he would tax these 'land-torpedoes' out of existence, and was full of sympathy and pity for the poor children coming from school.

A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner - Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough