Tea or coffee? There’s no need to choose

sir – In the early 1960s, while in my late teens, I was a bus conductor in Birmingham. The depot canteen charged a penny for a cup of tea (Letters, October 4) or coffee – made, of course, with Camp Coffee.

A variation favoured by the West Indian crews was a “teacoffee” – a cup of tea, poured from the huge aluminium teapot, into which was stirred a spoonful of Camp Coffee. The result was tasty and caught on among the rest of the crews, despite the price premium of an extra halfpenny. David Law

Salisbury, Wiltshire