12 JULY 1963, Page 9

Expendable It doesn't matter what happens with parking meters, the

motorist is going to go right on feel- ing hounded, and authority is going to go right ahead hounding him in self-defence. It's a titanic struggle between good and good, and everybody is going to end up wishing something else had happened instead. I have been digging through my old loony ideas, and discover that some years ago I invented the final answer, though I never got round to the technical details. It's the Kleenex car, a perfect symbol of the waste- makers' ethos. The whole affair is built of dis- posable tissue, and when you arrive anywhere, you flush it away.