Dinwiddie was evidently actuated by the petty pique of a narrow and illiberal mind, impatient of contradiction, even when in error. . . . It may excite a grave smile at the present day to find Washington charged by this very small-minded man with looseness in his way of writing to him.

Bach's setting of the Magnificat

For use with petrol-electric, and subsequently diesel-electric, vehicles, air horns were developed about 1918, and today they vary from single-note instruments to those producing as many as five chiming pitches.

No steps were taken to enforce it, as, from the financial embarrassment of the company and the uncompleted state of the line, litigation was unadvisable.