Sir, Professor Kevin Morley says that “no one in Russia knows what a Vauxhall is” (“Opel ‘will be brand name to attract Russian buyers’,” June 1). This is not quite correct. Russians all know that a Vauxhall is a main railway station.
There is a story told that when the Russians sent a delegation to London in the latter part of the 19th century to look at our railway system, the British Government, fearing that the Russians were simply spying on us, arranged for them to visit Vauxhall, saying that it was one of our mainline stations. The delegation returned to Russia and henceforth all Russian mainline stations (and others) were called Vokz?l.
Commander Aubone Pyke (RN)
Yetminster, Dorset