M40 Junction 4

The rebus just shows a motorway junction sign [REB2].

�Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit� is a line from the Stephen Spender poem I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great [J41]. Spender was one of the themes of the 2003 hunt.

From the list of cars you need to obtain the relevant manufacturer�s names for each model, i.e. Maserati, Edsel, Reliant, Renault, Yugo, Citroen, Hillman, Rolls Royce, Isuzu, Suzuki, Toyota, Marcos, Aston Martin and Skoda. The initial letters of these spell MERRY CHRISTMAS [J42]. A similar code was used in the 2003 Hunt. Tradition demands that this message appears somewhere.

The little sports car with a �G� logo is undoubtedly a Ginetta � vehicles which featured a lot in the 2003 Hunt.

The mysterious picture is a view of the Lloyds Building in London, slightly doctored and turned sideways. It was designed by RICHARD ROGERS, who was another of the themes of the 2003 Hunt [J43]. The word FOX in Morse Code can just be seen in the top left [J44].

The front of the cigarette card shows the actor James Fox [J45]. The number 4 has no real significance except that we are at Junction 4 on the M40. The full text on the back of the card could eventually be deduced to read as follows:

James Fox, brother of Edward, usually plays a reluctant member of the middle class or aristocracy. As the Soviet spy Anthony Blunt in the BBC play �A Question of Attribution� he was a model of patrician disdain. His capacity to portray sensitive, victimised characters was exploited by Arthur Penn in �The Chase�. Penn was better known for films like �Bonnie and Clyde� and �Alice�s Restaurant�. �The Chase� was based on a play by Lillian Hellman, who also wrote �The Little Foxes�.  In the film, Fox played the son of a rich oil baron, Jason �Jake� Rogers.

Notice the further references to chases and foxes. But the last word is what is needed � ROGERS (not to be confused with Richard of that ilk) [J46].

The line �bare like nude giant girls� is from a Stephen Spender poem on the subject of pylons [J47].

The parapet shows the formula for XYLENE [J48]. Other elements of the graffiti are irrelevant, except maybe for the �X20X� one which shows the rough structure of this Hunt �  that there are two �treasures� separated by twenty stages.

Passwords and Directions

(a) ROGERS to reach the M40 Junction 5
(b) ROGERS to reach Marlow
(c) XYLENE to return to West Wycombe.