11 JANUARY 1957, Page 18

THE MONTGOLFIANS

SIR.—The balloon will certainly go up if your reviewer does not get his colours correct, The LNER brown-red? Never! The LNWR had chocolate- black engines, but, unless I am mistaken, the LNER originally retained the rather pleasing light green of the old NER.—Yours faithfully, Dalkeith, Newent, Glos H. ALAN PEACOCK