27 MARCH 1959, Page 21

SIR,--Surely Leslie Adrian is a man; only a man could

have written the 'recent article about wine prices in Pullman cars and margarine on pub sandwiches, to give two examples.

Only a man could have written the article about buying continental makes of car, with its glowing encomium for the Volkswagen. No woman would praise a car of which she was unable to locate the engine, and no woman knows what a brake lining is,— Yours faithfully, *'