of a sketch was enacted on a runway at RAF Benson, South Oxfordshire, in 1961. A Morris Oxford with a series of road signs sprouting from its roof was repeatedly driven at speed towards a small grandstand containing a dozen off-duty personnel making notes on clipboards. This bizarre event had been arranged by the Department of Transport in an attempt to finally settle a raging debate over whether motorway signs should use a modern sans-serif font in upper and lower cases, or a more traditional type in capitals with sticky-out-bits on the and other national organs. On the results of their observations rested the future of the British road signage system.
