24 MARCH 1933, Page 16

Again, it is almost ludicrous to see once expensive cars—

Rolls-Royces, Buicks, Vauxhalls and what not—careering over the Downs and doing most of the hard transport work. Some have the spikes of an ample hay sweep fixed to their fronts ;. some drag wide platforms behind them. Some were bought for a pound or two, but, like the old-time 'bus-horses, transferred to farms in their old age, never did such good work as in the days of their retirement. I met the same type of machine doing like work on Mr. Ford's farm at Dagenham. The one difference there was that the sweeps (for collecting not hay but corn) were fixed to the rear of the cars for the purpose of backing them into piles of stooks.