24 SEPTEMBER 1965, Page 15

Strix on Windscreens

SIR,--A couple of months ago I was peacefully eating a sandwich, in my car, in a lay-by, when the bark window was suddenly shattered.

The only car passing at the time was on my side of the road,, proceeding in the direction in which I was facing.

DONALD REID

3 Shaftesbury Road, Richmond, Surrey