The things they say

“With the Minister will be the past-Chairman and Vice-President elect of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, Bryan Goodman, who will be driving his 1904 CGV open tourer French vintage car. The other model there will be a 1903 two-seater Oldsmobile, a single-cylinder five-horsepower American car known as a Curved Dish.”

— from a Department of Transport Press release inviting us to watch Peter Bottomley MP ceremonially filling vintage cars with lead-free petrol. Well, the DoT has had a but on its plate recently. …