
Duff information
Sir, I am looking for information about John Duff, who raced at Brooklands, Le Mans and Indianapolis in the 1920s. He died in 1958. Can anybody help? M Tanney 34…
POLICE STATE?
According to a newspaper report, a motorist was brought before Dungannon petty sessions on a charge of having splashed a police Sergeant by driving his car at 25 m.p.h. through a 5-ft.-wide pool of water which had formed in the roadway-the sergeant standing on the pavement in plain clothes. The case was brought by the District Police Inspector.
We are delighted to know that the Resident Magistrate, Mr. W. Miller. said that if this constituted careless driving all traffic would be brought to a standstill in snow and slush. He dismissed the case. But, as the reader who sent us the cutting comments : “What will the police think Of next ?”