Part of Europe

Sir,

With reference to your Road Impressions “although not possessed of any pronounced oriental enthusiasms” etc., perhaps you would be kind enough to enlarge on this. Surely it cannot be a long memory bothering you, otherwise why the love of German vehicles? I remember the cartoon years back depicting you looking through spectacles the lenses of which were clouded by the badges of the two best known German car manufacturers.

Personally I would not buy foreign let alone German or Japanese.

Secondly, the letter from Air Commodore Banks: the paragraph “Summing up: and of course the pilots saved our necks . . .” Surely this should be crews or if he insists, pilots and crews? I distinctly remember other people climbing into a Lancaster with me some 30 odd years ago.

Wellingborough M. ABBOTT

[ Since when has Germany been part of the Orient? It is, remember, in Europe, of which we are now a small part.—Ed.]