15 FEBRUARY 1957, Page 14

HOLD TIGHTLY SIR,—As an antidote to the recent 'Bold Tightly'

letter, perhaps a London cabby's effort towards road safety in the year 1902 may be of interest.

When I was about to dart across Oxford Circus on a very wet night carrying a violin, with intent to catch the blue bus to Victoria Station, I gently turned a horse's head, by the blinker, to one side as it stood in the cab rank.

The cabby immediately shouted after me, 'Oil 'Oose 'orse's 'ead are you a-shbvin of?'—Yours faith- fully,