16 JULY 1954, Page 7

The Humourless Cockneys

I do not wish to say a word against the LCC, the Ministry of Transport, the Metropolitan Police or any of the other authorities who may be directly or indirectly concerned with the matter; but it does seem to me to argue a certain lack of something or other that, after all these years, nobody in London should have thought of anything more imaginative to put on the notices directing drivers ,to bombed site car parks than Bombed Site Car Park.' STRIX