You describe Vienna’s big wheel as a “ferris wheel” (Austria criticised over jailing of Jewish author , 5 October). Strictly speaking, it should be called a Graydon wheel, after its designer, Lieutenant Alexander Graydon, an ancestor of mine, whose wheels became public attractions in major cities at about the same time as those designed by George Ferris. The favourite film of my mother, Pamela Graydon, was The Third Man, in which Vienna’s big wheel plays a major part, and I always regret that I discovered this interesting fact about its designer only after her death.
Karl Sabbagh
Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire
• Ivor Mitchell (Letters, 2 October) says that Jeremy Corbyn’s policy should be to scrap our weapons of mass destruction but not tell anyone else that they have been scrapped. Isn’t that exactly what Saddam Hussein had done by March 2003?
Jeremy Waxman
Saltaire, West Yorkshire
• Is Robert Kitson “what England need is less rose-tinted optimism” (Lancaster damned by failure to improve the basics, Sport 5 October) any relation to the Robert Kitson who was one of six Guardian experts unanimously predicting an England victory on Saturday (Report, Sport, 3 October)?
Alan Willson
Swansea
• What is all this talk about a “humiliating” defeat (of England by Australia)? It is not humiliating. It’s just that Australia had the better team on the day. Now, if England had been beaten by a small village’s second reserve team, that would be humiliating.
Eira Hughes
Manchester
• Thank God for Lewis Hamilton, as opposed to “failed” English soccer, cricket and rugby teams (Letters, 5 October)? Do you mean the Lewis Hamilton who moved from England first to Switzerland and then on to Monaco to avoid English taxes?
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
