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Featured article: Rattletrap

Rattletrap is the Beckfoot car of the Blacketts, described as a smallish, ancient motor-car with badly dinted mudguards and a luggage grid at the rear (PP1). Mrs Blackett turned the car round in a series of short dashes in the Tysons yard: Oh well, she said as she stalled the engine and got out and looked round the car: That front mudguard was dinted already several times. And that one at the back’s always unlucky. There’s no real harm done ...more...

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