I am sure the UK did not follow the USA route, but there is a specialist (hobby) site here:http://policecaruk.com/50YearsMotorw...yPolicing.html
Some quality cars, like the Jaguar, although not many liked it for police work.
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I am sure the UK did not follow the USA route, but there is a specialist (hobby) site here:http://policecaruk.com/50YearsMotorw...yPolicing.html
Some quality cars, like the Jaguar, although not many liked it for police work.
davidbfpo
The Triumph Thunderbird or BSA will fetch you a cool 50 grand today - even if it doesn't run.
Why in God's name do they call those things jam sandwiches I thought. Where did that paint scheme originate David ?
If you want to blend in, take the bus
In Germany we had an era of VW Käfer (Beetle) and several generations of VW Bulli (small bus) police cars, but since at the latest the 80's police cars became very diverse, usually middle class cars (most often BMW, Audi) with more modern Transporter (similar to Bulli in concept, but bigger) -type vehicles as well.
We've never had much emphasis on pursuit (no stronger engines afaik, for example).
The division is between patrol cars for most tasks and transporters for transport of much personnel (for example to a football match) or as the base for a speed measuring station etc. The extra equipment for police cars besides the colour film on the surfaces is as far as I know only loudspeaker, siren, extra lights, separation of cabin, lock of rear doors and an obsolete radio (still no digital radio in most states).
We've also got covert police cars; afaik typically 2-4 in a city of 50,000 residents. They're over-represented in German police-themed TV productions.
Police motorcycles almost disappeared, but light ones were very much in use during the 50's and 60's.
Jam sandwiches?
Stan,Originally Posted by Stan
The fluorescent red stripe - being the "jam" - as the cars were invariably painted white. So simple.
I've no idea what name the current nationally agreed blue & yellow square patchwork and partly fluorescent colour scheme has.
davidbfpo
Fun Fact : As Director of Public Safety for Philadelphia, in 1924 USMC General Smedley Butler was one of the first to authorize the purchase of fast autos for pursuit of bank robbers. He also had them fitted with radios.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Evolution requires a certain amount of natural selection, meaning some must fall by the wayside...
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Nonsense, there's no evolution. All intelligent design. Someone knew from the beginning what he wanted as police car!Evolution requires a certain amount of natural selection, meaning some must fall by the wayside...
Well, that photograph did involve a mission from God, and a Penguin, so design may have had something to do with it. Intelligent is another question...
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Dutch police also used the Beetle for years, as well as the Porsche for traffic duties.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. (Christopher Columbus)
All great truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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