DOCTORS' CARS AND OTHERS Sta,—Your correspondent, Mr. F. 0. Taylor,
rightly deplores the plight of those country-dwellers who are compelled to work a car hard over hard roads, and who find that the export drive makes it difficult to get a reliable new one. But his figure of £250 a year depreciation, over and above running expenses, is hardly credible ; a car costing £1,000 when new is not worth nothing at the end of four years, and I would suggest that his estimate of £250 might reasonably be halved. Many a country vicar, like myself, will envy his mileage allowance, and wonder why his car is valueless after only 50,000 miles. Before the war I could get a reliable new car for under £200, which I did ; now, after an incomparably greater mileage mainly on parish and hospital work on deplorable roads, even if I can scrape together £200 again to replace my old non-State- financed veteran (which I must do soon), what hope have I at this price of a reliable car ? What is needed on the market is a really cheap, reliable car with all the frills cut out.—Yours faithfully, Shebbeare Vicarage, Beeavorthy, North Devon. C. N. REYNOLDS.
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