> Our American cousins will probably be wondering what a Panda car was?
> For their benefit it was the colour scheme of local police cars in UK.
> Originally all Police cars were black and someone had the bright idea to
> have white doors. Later versions were a greeny blue car with
> white doors. I
> believe it was a Ford colour Lagoon Blue. The Panda name struck. Nowadays
> local cars are white with yellow and blue reflective side panels
> and as they
> are mainly diesels the crooks can now see and hear them from far away and
> are long gone.
>
Ah and don't forget the "jam sandwich", being the ever classic white Rover
with the red reflective stripe down the length of the car about mid-height.
David A. Templeton
Open Text Corp.
Waterloo, ON
Canada
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