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Show Automobiles Stoned Long Ago. Atttomoblllata who have been fined for fast running, stoned by Irate farmers, pestered bv officious constables and lampooned by news-piiper-- may take comfort In the knowledge that their original, some seven ty-flve u '-ago '-ago passed through the same es;perenc'-s only more of them " The first quarter of the last century deol- , ped an automobile cr2, fully an virulent an I the fud of today. In the l?0's and 1S30'3' Mtoam wagons to run on common roads, turn pikes and toll roads became so popular with the higher classes in England that the directors direc-tors of Hinge coach companies and breeders of homes took alarm. They uer their influence I to slip a number of little bills thrfl ment. permitting toll roads to leF elgiied to bo prohibitive on tteasfAl and wntf.-inn Th .itnmers were Sfl. pay fl .-e and ten times as muehS charged the largest slx-hcrse etaW Technical World Magazine. |