Hundreds of car enthusiasts known as cruisers are continuing to gather at a Brighouse industrial estate on Sunday evenings, despite the introduction of traffic calming measures designed to deter them.

Police have again been patrolling the site at Armytage Road after as many as 400 customised vehicles turned up last week.

Inspector Pete Brennand, of Brighouse police, said the area had now been dubbed the 'Brighouse drag-strip.'

"It is worse now than it's ever been," he said.

"Last week we had a traffic car, van and a beat car down there. It went off without major incident but there were 400 cars. They weren't misbehaving on the roads but one or two were spinning round and burning their tyres in the car parks."

He said families were still taking children down to the site to watch the spectacle and it had become a ''carnival atmosphere''.

The T&A reported in February how Calderdale Council had installed temporary chicanes in an attempt to deter drivers using the road as a race track in their modified or high performance cars but Insp Brennand said the measures were having no effect.

"We wanted proper road humps to slow people down," he said. "If cruisers have spent money on fancy spoilers, they won't want to pull them off racing over speed bumps.

"The genuine cruisers - most of them down there - don't race or rev their engines but admire each other's cars. It's only the small minority who are causing a problem who may have hired the car for the day and are not bothered about spinning it around and burning rubber. It's amazing somebody hasn't been seriously hurt already."

Councillor Colin Stout (Ind, Brighouse) said: "They should start prosecuting them for causing a nuisance."