Some plucky things have been done by chauffeurs and motor-lorry
drivers. It would make some of your London drivers stare to see what
they will risk. One of them said this war will cause a revolution in
motor driving, as, till now, they never had a chance of seeing what
a heavy motor-van could do off a macadamized road. They simply go
whereever there is room for them, and more than once they have charged
patrol parties who tried to capture them, and got through all right.
One driver, seeing that the road was blocked, charged a wooden fence
and turf wall, and got out of the way of a lorry that the Germans sent
at full speed to smash him. The smashing was on the German lorry.
Motorcycles also do wonders. They travel like demons, and rarely get
hit: _Pte. Watts, Cheshire Regiment_.