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The recent change of stub has brought this to my attention: does the community at large think this article is a stub any more? It's got quite substantial. -- Scott Wilson 02:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC) Another advantage is that it would avoid these arguments about what stub to use... -- Scott Wilson 11:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I always thought that they were called Panda cars, because in the old days a lot of them were actually Fiat Pandas. - Not true then? Jooler 00:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC). I thought perhaps it was an acronym for "Police AND A??????". Assistance for example.
Panda cars were named after pandas because they were originally painted in large panels of black and white, or blue (usually light blue) and white. This may have been influenced by the black-and-white vehicle colour scheme favoured by North American police forces, which allowed the unambiguous recognition of patrol units as such from a significant distance.
This article really lacks a photo of a vintage panda car in the original design. Thanks, Maikel ( talk) 12:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to let Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jam sandwich (police car) run its course to minimize the drama, but then I'm going to nominate this article for deletion per WP:NOT#DICTIONARY and WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Now would be a good time to cite any sources that would meet the criteria explained at WP:NOTNEO; secondary sources that are about the term, giving us insight and broader understanding of society, explaining more than merely what it means or demonstrating that the neologism exists.
A a good alternative might be to merege this along with Black and white (police vehicle) into List of police-related slang terms, or create a new List of slang for police vehicles to include panda car, paddywagon and so on. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 23:05, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
The prose reads "In Britain, they were never painted black and white, so "panda" appears to be a reference to the cars as seen on popular British television shows, such as Z-Cars, via the medium of black and white television which was commonplace at the time.". Just doing some Flickr research on Jam sandwich (police car) and this image of (presumably black) B&W police cars turned up; the origin should be dependable.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 21:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
I have now added this Flickr link under External heading, plus a substantial third-party reference which - I am very pleased - pre-dates the Wikipedia article.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 13:48, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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The recent change of stub has brought this to my attention: does the community at large think this article is a stub any more? It's got quite substantial. -- Scott Wilson 02:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC) Another advantage is that it would avoid these arguments about what stub to use... -- Scott Wilson 11:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I always thought that they were called Panda cars, because in the old days a lot of them were actually Fiat Pandas. - Not true then? Jooler 00:56, 17 March 2006 (UTC). I thought perhaps it was an acronym for "Police AND A??????". Assistance for example.
Panda cars were named after pandas because they were originally painted in large panels of black and white, or blue (usually light blue) and white. This may have been influenced by the black-and-white vehicle colour scheme favoured by North American police forces, which allowed the unambiguous recognition of patrol units as such from a significant distance.
This article really lacks a photo of a vintage panda car in the original design. Thanks, Maikel ( talk) 12:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to let Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jam sandwich (police car) run its course to minimize the drama, but then I'm going to nominate this article for deletion per WP:NOT#DICTIONARY and WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Now would be a good time to cite any sources that would meet the criteria explained at WP:NOTNEO; secondary sources that are about the term, giving us insight and broader understanding of society, explaining more than merely what it means or demonstrating that the neologism exists.
A a good alternative might be to merege this along with Black and white (police vehicle) into List of police-related slang terms, or create a new List of slang for police vehicles to include panda car, paddywagon and so on. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 23:05, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
The prose reads "In Britain, they were never painted black and white, so "panda" appears to be a reference to the cars as seen on popular British television shows, such as Z-Cars, via the medium of black and white television which was commonplace at the time.". Just doing some Flickr research on Jam sandwich (police car) and this image of (presumably black) B&W police cars turned up; the origin should be dependable.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 21:34, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
I have now added this Flickr link under External heading, plus a substantial third-party reference which - I am very pleased - pre-dates the Wikipedia article.-- Rocknrollmancer ( talk) 13:48, 6 November 2020 (UTC)