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solbjerg
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toll-cars

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hi All
Has anyone heard the expression "toll-cars"?
In Danish that would be "bimle-biler/busser"
Toll as in "For whom the bell tolls" - mostly known from Hemingway's novel by that name, but actually from John Donne's poem (sometime in the 1600s)
Two lines in that poem "For whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee"

I think these cars are most common in Pakistan - and there usually on painted lorries, trucks and busses, that also carries small bells. (Hence the name I think!)
Cheers
solbjerg
p.s. I found another word for toll cars → jingle truck/bus/lorry
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