SOUND CARS TO THE FORE!

Many sound cars broadcast the good news throughout cities, towns and rural areas. Cars were fitted with a loudspeaker on top and a turntable inside on which were played short musical items, followed by recordings of Brother Rutherford’s Bible lectures. After the lecture the brothers followed up by calling from house to house.

In Hobart, Tasmania, a sound car had been used several times to broadcast the lectures to over three hundred factory workers while they were eating their midday meal in pleasant surroundings at the docks. One day the brothers noticed the police waiting, obviously thinking of preventing the broadcast before it began.

A kindly old fisherman who had previously shown some interest had tied up his boat at the dock. The brothers approached him, and he agreed to allow them to set up their loudspeaker system on his boat, which, of course, was private property and could not be interfered with by the police. So the prepared program went on as planned. The workers continued to hear the lecture, while the police walked back and forth on the dock in sheer frustration.

An easily recognized vehicle in the cities was the “Red Terror,” a bright-red panel van with a large sound horn mounted on top. Bert Horton, in turn a regional service director, zone servant and finally a member of the Bethel family, along with his wife, Vi, operated this outstanding vehicle for many years. In one year almost every street in Melbourne resounded with stirring exposures of false religion.

An easily recognized vehicle in the cities was the “Red Terror,” a bright-red panel van with a large sound horn mounted on top. Bert Horton, in turn a regional service director, zone servant and finally a member of the Bethel family, along with his wife, Vi, operated this outstanding vehicle for many years. In one year almost every street in Melbourne resounded with stirring exposures of false religion.

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Bert Horton’s redheaded wife, Vi, and red sound car were affectionately known as the two “red terrors”