11 NOVEMBER 1972, Page 12

Wires crossed

From Raymond Fletcher MP Sir: Tom Puzzle, unusually for him, got his wires badly crossed when he wrote about me in your issue of November 4.

I have been arguing for the interests of the London taxi-cab trade (more in the Home Office than on the floor of the House) since I was elected in 1964; and I do this on behalf of the cab section of the Transport and General Workers' Union. I have nothing whatever to do with the breakaway organisation, nor could I have.

Secondly, far from abandoning my interest in the modernised airship I am now actively engaged, along with my fellow-members of the Council of the Airship Association, in planning an Airship Exhibition for next February. I was, moreover, flying over the Ruhr in a new German airship during the Recess.

Raymond Fletcher House of Commons, London SW1