5 MARCH 1965, Page 9

Send for Buchanan As a member of this office was

walking home at the top of Tottenham Court Road on a recent evening, he felt something nudge his elbow, something he felt was much more sub- stantial than a pedestrian. A beetle-like Mini Was crawling past him, well on the pavement, as the only possible way to jump the bogged. down queue of fuming cars extending south- wards to perhaps Purley or the Channel coast. Was it Lady Metroland in one of Evelyn Waugh's early novels who said that the insolent chariots Would one day completely infest London?