Sunday, March the 23rd, 2014
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Jeremy Thorpe spent the early weeks of the [October 1974 general election] campaign on a preposterous hovercraft tour of English seaside resorts, providing broadcasters with plenty of pictures of himself “struggling ashore in bedraggled oilskins” while aides toiled miserably to restart his unreliable vehicle.
Dominic Sandbrook, Seasons In The Sun : The Battle For Britain 1974–1979 (Allen Lane 2012)