When the Traffic Division was formed in 1962, it began to develop its own fleet of cars. The first motorway patrol cars, the Ford Zephyr Estate cars have been mentioned elsewhere, as has the fact that some black Austin A99 Westminster Area Cars were sprayed white and given to Traffic, but these we replaced from ...
Read more In 1967, Hertfordshire bought a number of Jaguar 340 saloons for traffic patrol. These were a development of the well known Mark 2 Jaguar but were a ‘stop gap’ model, pending the arrival of the Jaguar XJ6 late in 1968. Using the Mark 2 body shell and mechanical parts, the 340 for police use lacked some ...
Read more In 1958, I joined Hertfordshire Constabulary as a Police Cadet stationed at Watford. For part of my time there I was attached to the Traffic Office in the corner of the yard and sometimes found myself washing patrol cars. In the days when almost all police cars were black, there was a unique Area Car ...
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