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Interior of a P4 Rover 90 just like the one in the story.

The petrol pump in these large older Rover saloons was in
the right hand corner of the boot. It pushes the fuel forward to
the carburettor on the engine. This method of fuel delivery is
common to the new range of Morris and Austin saloon cars
that were becoming the rage at this time. It was also shared
with the MG B sports saloons.
I clambered underneath the car after surfacing at about
lunchtime Sunday, Jane turned on the ignition to activate the
pump and I was engulfed in a fine spray of petrol jetting from a
pin hole in the fuel deliver pipe just above the exhaust system!

THE WINDOW EPISODE
Around about this same time, Peter our good neighbour
and his wife Margaret invited us round to their house which
was just diagonally opposite to No 45. They had a purpose

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