Truly period, and older than even TDU's oldest Gallipoli veteran.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgN_w3TXZc&feature=related
'You can go as far as you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile' must surely have been banned by the men of MTO. There was no crystal-set top 40 then, just the Edison phonograph. If you were in rural Victoria, and the winlight was no longer turning, you had to sit pedalling the generator to have enough power to either see the player, or play it, but not both simultaneously.
Today, Metro Melbourne still has the same problem with its outer-urban routes.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor