GR translation: black phaetons

[Mike Jing]

You are right, of course. Given the time period, motor vehicles would
certainly make more sense. Interestingly, OED only lists the historical
sense, but other dictionaries do mention touring car.


On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 5:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought what I sent might answer it either way depending on when.....If
> horses came back 1/39 then
> these are probably motor vehicles, no?
>
> the text seems to give almost no clues as to which easily, except that it
> seems fewer horse-drawn carriages, when one looks them up may have been
> black than phaetons. Black was more a motor vehicle color than carriages to
> travel and visit from. And
> for horse carriages, must the horses have been black too? Seems so or the
> compression image doesn't work as easily.
>
> And I would say, horse carriages would be much harder to call a "massive
> ant-cortege" because of the
> bridling volatility of horses all mashed together.
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 5:27 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That's interesting. However, the Adenoid episode happened before 1939.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 11:03 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/horses-come-back-ww2-1939/
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 10:48 AM Mike Jing <
>>> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> V15.18-20, V15.35-38   . . . a halfhearted attempt is made to evacuate
>>>> London, black phaetons clatter in massive ant-cortege over the trusswork
>>>> bridges, observer balloons are stationed in the sky,
>>>>
>>>> Are these black phaetons horse carriages or motor vehicles?
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