Browne coach plea

Sir — Liam Collins’s piece on Garech Browne’s collection of coaches (Sunday Independent February 10) was most informative. It would be a shame if the collection was split up or sold abroad, like Harry Clarke’s Geneva windows and also the Hugh Lane collection of pictures, nearly lost due to misjudgement at the time. My grandfather was a coach painter in the 1920s and perhaps worked on some of the collection. Let us hope some of our new entrepreneurs will step forward and save the collection. George Walsh, Ranelagh,

Dublin 6