This column's recent exposé on the electric car constructed by bureaucrat Sir Roland Wilson using bits and pieces from junk shops and rubbish tips around Canberra during 1942 prompted a bulging mailbag about the innovative contraption which is now held by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.
Many comments reflect that of Sarah Smithers of Kaleen who writes, "Great to see a bureaucrat thinking outside the square, something that you're unlikely to see in today's risk-averse public service."
