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Mr. Maginnis, of the Australian Motorcab Co., is at present in London.
Buenos Aires is to have a fleet of 500 Unics, and a London firm is building 100 of the bodies.
Thirsty Weather.
A canteen is shortly to be opened at the Brixton garage of the General Motor Cab Co. It will accommodate 180 persons. Similar convenience is already in existence at Farm Lane, Chiswick and Acton.
No Cabs at London Bridge.
Complaints are once again current of the difficulty at certain times of the day of procuring a taxicab in the station yard at London Bridge. It frequently happens that there is no available motorcab at either the L.B.S.C. or the S.E. terminus when many of the important trains arrive from the south
and south-east. This is particularly the case late at night.
A Bad Show at Norwich.
The horse-cab drivers in Norwich are now congratulating themselves that the Show week has passed, without the advent of taxicabs into the city. In our previous issue we recorded the fact that Marin Egerton and Co., Ltd., maintains a number of private-hire vehicles in its garages. This company is of opinion that, at present, taxicabs would not pay in Norwich.
A Legal Authority on "Clocks."
With reference to the important "taximeter tampering" case
which (at the time of going to tress) is now being heard at the Old Bailey, and which we shall report at considerable length in our next issue, it is interesting to note that this is the third trial of a similar nature which has been held in those courts. In the first ease, the prisoner was a man named Solomons, and he was sentenced to five months hard labour ; in the second case, Henry Ellerington, the father of one of the prisoners who is now being tried, was sentenced to five months imprisonment in the Second Division. In all these cases the prosecution has originated with the managers of the Brixton Garage of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., and they have been heard in Court 3 before the Common Sergeant, who is likely to become a specialist in such matters. e-fie A Regular Job.
A ‘• Pilot" motorcab was recently hired for a journey from London to Great Driffield in Yorkshire. The return journey was completed in two days—a total distance of 170 miles.
A Cabman's Holiday.
A tire-fitting competition is to be one of the events at the cabdrivers' sports at Stamford Bridge on August Bank Holiday_ This novel event is the suggestion of Mr. W. M. Hodges, of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., and the details have been left in his. hands.
Don't Want to be Examined.
As a result of the protest made by cabdrivers and other workers engaged in public-service transport, which we reported in our last issue, a deputation from the various trades unions concerned was received at the Home Office, last Tuesday to discuss the new medical-certificate requirements.
L.C.D.T.U.
Nominations for the presidency of the London Cab Drivers' Trade Union have now been made. The only two names which will be submitted to the members at the coming election are Messrs_ A. Smith and S. Michaels. Mr. F, Hill, the general secretary, has been reappointed to his old position. This union now has 5,000 members who drive taxicabs. Several of the Unic cabs which are now plying for hire at Brighton are controlled by the Unie Motor Cab Co., Ltd,, of 82, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W.
Over a Heap of Stones.
At the Sussex Summer Assizes, before Mr. Justice Phillimore and a special jury, on Saturday last, two actions, which had been brought against the Westhampnett Rural District Council for negligence, were decided. The plaintiffs were Michael Shehan, a motorcab driver, and W. and G. du Cros, Ltd., respectively. It was sought to recover damages on the ground of alleged negligence on the part of the District Council in allowing a heap of stones to remain on the public highway unlighted, The plaintiffs were represented by Mr. Marshall Hall, K.C., and Mr. Walter Stewart, whilst Sir Frederick Low, K.C., and Mr. Harold Brandon appeared for the defendant Council. The surveyor to the Council deposed that no part of the, heap of stones overlapped the metal surface of the road. Driver Shehan said that he was driving a 15 It.p, Napier machine from Chichester to Bognor, and that he had five passengers inside and one outside. Ernest Perry, described as an engineer and chauffeur to Messrs. Salter and Co., Chichester, estimated that the plaintiff Shehan must have been driving at 30 miles an hour. The jury, immediately on the closing of the ease, returned a verdict for the defendant.