" Preserve them," admonishes the Chairman of the Veteran Car
Club in that body's Gazette. "Dictators may come and Dictators may—and incidentally will—go! but no power on earth can manufacture any more cars prior to December, 1904. All of which merely means that these irreplaceable old treasures of ours must be preserved by us, through rumours of wars, and possibly through wars them- selves. . . . Just give a little thought to what you would do with your old mechanical pal in the event of another crisis. Determine in your mind where you would send him, or her, for the very uncertainty of some of these old pals of ours entitle them to be classed amongst the weaker sex! There are many storage places out of the danger zones such as in barns, old coachhouses, and the like, where our old friends would be safe and happy until the sauer- kraut and ice-cream had been reduced to the proper constituents, and Europe had once again become sane and
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