_To the Editor of "The Wireless News." 1st June, 1930_.
Dear Sir,--I wish to protest through your columns against the
outrageous behaviour of the drivers of public air conveyances on the
Brighton Front.
Yesterday I and other passengers boarded a ramshackle aero-à-banc
(the floor of which was covered with musty straw) with the intention
of having a "joy-trip" to Rottingdean. The fare was two shillings and
sixpence. We had not mounted five hundred feet into the air before the
driver yelled to us, "Nah then, another 'arf-a-chrahn all rahnd or
I'll loop the loop." We were forced to comply with the demand of this
highwayman of the atmospheric thoroughfares; but on alighting I took
the first opportunity of giving his number to a policeman.
One sighs for the old-fashioned courtesy of the taxi-cab driver of
another decade.
Yours, etc., CONSTANT READER.
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