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Page 178
... Singer car and an aeroplane . Certainly nothing ever changed so profoundly my material existence , the mechanism and range of my every - day life , as the posses- sion of a motor car . Even as an individual , I sometimes think how ...
... Singer car and an aeroplane . Certainly nothing ever changed so profoundly my material existence , the mechanism and range of my every - day life , as the posses- sion of a motor car . Even as an individual , I sometimes think how ...
Page 179
... Singer car we used to go abroad , travelling as English people had done for the last hundred years , comparatively slowly , by boat and rail to some place where one would probably settle down for a week or two . Like so much of life ...
... Singer car we used to go abroad , travelling as English people had done for the last hundred years , comparatively slowly , by boat and rail to some place where one would probably settle down for a week or two . Like so much of life ...
Page 181
... Singer car to drive there . It opened to one a new way of life . In the old way of travel one was tied to the railway ; as one moved through a country , one followed the straight steel parallel lines , one had no contact with the life ...
... Singer car to drive there . It opened to one a new way of life . In the old way of travel one was tied to the railway ; as one moved through a country , one followed the straight steel parallel lines , one had no contact with the life ...
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