This month’s set is British American Tobacco Company’s series of 48 cards titled “Transport Then and Now.” A thoroughly good series of colour pictures backed by excellent texts. Alternate cards deal with a mode of transport as it was at the date the series was prepared around 1940 compared with an equivilant from the past. Sometimes the time lapse is small, as with King George V1’s Royal Car (present) and Edward V11’s (past), but with others the gap is much greater as for the postman of the present versus a runner from the time of Alfred the Great. Sixty years on, we are now in a position to view the ‘present’ cards as being ‘past’ so Eurostar could be a match for the cross-channel train ferry. I doubt, however, whether it would be wise to show one of the present day Virgin West Coast trains against the magnificent Coronation Scot which covered the 400 miles from London to Glasgow at an average of over a mile per minute.