Sir, – Philip Cody (Letters June 24th) writes about his dad’s Peugeot 504. My mother drove seven of us, including the baby in his carry-cot, and our neighbour with her large basket of eggs for the market, all in her trusty Fiat 600 (known as “the little grey mouse”).
No health and safety worries in the 1970s! – Yours, etc,
MARY SHAUGHNESSY,
Turloughmore,
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