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Ant Anstead. Cops and Robbers: The Story of the British Police Car
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INTRODUCTION
So I joined the police …
CHAPTER ONE. CREATING THE BLUE LINE: THE BIRTH OF THE BRITISH POLICE FORCE
The Office of Constable: the basis of UK policing
CHAPTER TWO. THESE DEVILISH MACHINES SCARE THE HORSES, YOU KNOW
Arnold Motor Carriage Sociable, Chassis Number 1, MT20
The world’s first petrol-powered proper road trip …
1896 Léon Bollée Voiturette
What’s in a name?
CHAPTER THREE. ADAPT AND ARREST
Gladiator Voiturette
1903 Wolseley, and why the police used this marque for so long
The police ambulances
CHAPTER FOUR. POST-WAR PEACE; LONDON SETS THE WAY
Arthur Ernest Bassom OBE KPM (14 June 1865–17 January 1926), Director of Traffic Services
Bean 11.9hp: the UK’s first Traffic car
Crossley Tender – the first proper police cars were pick-up trucks!
Car registration
Health and safety in racing
First ever driving tests
World War I and the telegraph
CHAPTER FIVE. SEND THE AREA CAR
Volvo story
Police Constable Gledhill GC
Burned-out Senator story
CHAPTER SIX. PANDA CARS
Morris Minor 1000 ‘panda’ racing car
Hillman Imp panda cars
The case of the pink Ford Escorts
The Noddy Bike
CHAPTER SEVEN. TRAFFIC CARS
Steve Woodward; or shall we make this impersonal?
The Met’s buying policy
The Volvo story: how Volvo Traffic cars blazed a trail for foreign cars in the UK police
VOLVO brake issue
CHAPTER EIGHT. POLICE CAR LIVERY AND EQUIPMENT
CHAPTER NINE. COMMERCIAL BREAK
CHAPTER TEN. PERFORMANCE CARS
Restored MGA 1600 Lancashire Police Traffic car
Aubrey Slade
Cosworth
CHAPTER ELEVEN. IT’S GOT COP SHOCKS
Ruddspeed
Blydenstein
Broadspeed
Savage
Prodrive
What makes a police car?
Covertly armoured cars – a brief history
The Metropolitan Police High-Performance SD1
The infamous Metropolitan Police brake test
The Met and the automatic gearbox
CHAPTER TWELVE. BUYING CARS – POLICE VEHICLE PROCUREMENT AND DEMONSTRATION VEHICLES
1973 MGB GT V8 Police Evaluation and Demonstration Car
VW Beetle 1303
VW Vento VR6
Ford Cortina Mk2 1300 De Luxe 2-door Ford demonstration panda car for Manchester and Salford Police, and others
Renault 30 TS and 25 V6
Saab 900 Turbo and 9000CDi
Fiat
Jaguar
Lotus Carlton
Suzuki Vitara
Ford Zephyr MkIV Ferguson Formula four-wheel drive
Ford Granada concept car
Ford Galaxy 2.8 VR6
The Ford Ecostar van
Ford Fiesta
Ford Mustang
Audi 100 and 80
Alfa Romeo
SsangYong Musso GX220
Reliant Regal
Chrysler 180/2 litre
Talbot Tagora
Rover
Daihatsu
Riley Riviera and Silhouette
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. FANTASY CARS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. POLICE DRIVING
The human component – the nut behind the wheel; training the drivers
The police box or, as it’s better known today, the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension in Space)
The 999 service meant the police had yet another reason to get to places quickly
Sir Mark Everard Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham, 1903–1943
Roadcraft
IAM and the League of Safe Drivers
Class 1 drivers
The challenge changes
The cars
So what do they learn?
The Highway Code
Attitude
Skidding
Observation, anticipation and planning
‘System’
A systematic approach
Attitude again. Motorcycle training
Positioning
‘Limit Points’
Looking after the crew and the kit
The Ten Commandments
Use of lights and sirens, exceeding speed limits … etc
All is calm?
The legacy
What next?
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. POLICING ON THE SCREEN
NINE-NINE CARS
GOING ABROAD
THE CI5 MOTOR POOL
NEWSREELS
THE SWEENEY
PLATE SECTION
FOOTNOTES. Chapter Fifteen – Policing on the Screen
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PICTURE CREDITS
About the Publisher
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Unfortunately, Crossley never built a car that captured either the government’s or the public’s imagination in the same way again and eventually ceased making cars altogether in 1937. They continued to make trucks, though, and were acquired by the Associated Commercial Vehicles Group, better known as AEC, in 1948, who acquired Maudslay at the same time. The Crossley name faded away in 1956 and eventually became part of the British Leyland melting pot. It was a sad end for the marque that had been the backbone of the British military’s move to motorisation during World War I and subsequently provided the UK’s earliest police patrol and response vehicles. Rest in peace, Crossley.
The Crossley also played its part in the formation of the Flying Squad, formed in October 1919 after a post-war crime surge; it became known as ‘Sweeney Todd’ in rhyming slang quite quickly, then just Sweeney, and initially consisted of just 12 officers. Manchester City Police followed London’s lead in forming what was originally called a ‘Mobile Patrol Experiment’ and patrols were made using a horse-drawn carriage that had been borrowed from a railway company. However, it was soon re-organised and issued with Crossley Tenders, the first vehicles used in Britain for actual police work rather than just moving things and people between police facilities. The Crossleys were heavy and fairly simple beasts that were apparently quite easy to skid in wet weather, but they did provide a good basis for patient underworld observational work and were used successfully in this role. They were much loved by the officers who used them because they were reliable and capable workhorses. Most were fitted with van-type backs, or, at the very least, a canvas tilt. They were actually liveried at times with false trade names to appear as delivery vehicles or furniture removal vans to aid their undercover work, the first time this was ever done in the UK and probably even around the world. These disguises were easy to believe because, as discussed, war-surplus vehicles were very common in the early 1920s, although apparently it was quite some while before most criminals cottoned on to the fact that the police also owned some of these vehicles. However, by the mid-1920s these vehicles had become outmoded and had begun to be replaced.
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