On other days they would circle parked pick-up trucks, then swoop down and tear off their windscreen wipers.

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In 1905, there was an attempt to ban windscreen wipers because it was feared they would hypnotise drivers.

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In 1903 Mary Anderson came up with windscreen wipers which became standard equipment on all American cars by 1916.

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Getting it serviced was a nightmarish process involving long waits, the use of personal favours, and unpleasant discoveries (light-fingered mechanics would steal scarce items such as the wing mirrors or windscreen wipers).

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Therefore, middle managers could not resist spending all the money that they were saving through the outsourcing on adding additional quality in their product designs and, most of all, a lot of extra detail: a working light on every table in the restaurant carriage, windscreen wipers on the locomotive, a bit of dirt painted on the bottom of the carriages, etc.

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Ally watched the wipers push the water about in fan shapes on the windscreen.

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Sometimes people blow a fuse by trying to get their wipers to move when they're stuck to the windscreen.

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