{"id":1276,"date":"2014-01-11T12:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T12:04:55","slug":"kilcullen-men-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/kilcullen-men-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"KILCULLEN MEN IN ENGLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Leinster Leader 22 October 1949<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>KILCULLEN MEN IN ENGLAND\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>two Kilcullen brothers, William and Jim Barber, are fast becoming famous in Croydon, England, where they now live. The reason for the fame is a home-made, orange coloured car (nick-named \u201cKilcullen Girl\u201d) which they bought from a dealer for \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever the brothers go, people collect and stare, and if they leave the car for a minute or two in the street, they have difficulty in getting back again through the throng of spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Seating four people, \u201cKilcullen Girl\u201d has a seven horse-power engine with a home-made body. There are eight window spaces without glass, and the two front doors slide along the bonnet. The sliding roof is green canvas and works on rollers. The brothers claim it does 50 miles to the gallon. \u201cWe have cruised comfortably through\u00a0London at 40 miles per hour,\u201d they add.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Barber brothers left Kilcullen in 1937, but their father, Mr. James Barber, is still there. He has a cycle business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 22 October 1949 KILCULLEN MEN IN ENGLAND\u00a0 two Kilcullen brothers, William and Jim Barber, are fast becoming famous in Croydon, England, where they now live. The reason for the fame is a home-made, orange coloured car (nick-named \u201cKilcullen Girl\u201d) which they bought from a dealer for \u00a350. Wherever the brothers go, people collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}