It’s not very often these days that I agree with Len McCluskey but I make him right on his support for the expansion of Heathrow. These are obviously difficult decisions but it’s all very well for Les Bright (Letters, 27 June) to talk about “the quality of people’s lives rather than just the availability of work”. Work and good jobs are key and central to the quality of life and it is the responsibility of a union leader to protect and promote job opportunities.
Margaret Prosser
House of Lords
• “From Jack Kerouac to John Steinbeck and Chuck Berry to Andy Warhol, the most famous highway in the US [Route 66] has provided inspiration for writers, artists and musicians” (G2, 27 June). Pity you couldn’t find room to mention the actual songwriter, Bobby Troup.
Graham Larkbey
London
• Back in my long-distance past I did hear that the Morris Minor Traveller (Letters, passim) was one of the few vehicles that could fail its MOT owing to dry rot or woodworm. The wood supporting the upper rear of the car is an essential part of the structure. Is this true and has anyone had the misfortune to suffer this calamity?
Mike Lattimer
Woking, Surrey
• You can drive a Morris Minor into a cast iron lamppost – destroying the bumper and radiator in the process – and then return a few hours later after the engine has cooled down, to drive it five miles slowly home without it overheating. I managed to do this somehow on the Strand in 1976.
Stephen James
London
• Closer to home than Cuzco is the Duomo of San Gimignano in Tuscany (Letters, 29 June). The fresco of the Last Supper there makes it clear that the dish of the day was meerkat.
Anne Cowper
Swansea
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