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21st April 1910, Page 9
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Yeo and ,Davis, of lit, Sidwell Street, Exeter, are shortly to Place two taxicabs on the Exeter streets.

Miring the week ending the 10th inst.. the takings of the General Motor Cab Cu., Ltd., amounted to £16,757, which is an increase of £554 on the previous week.

Two thousand large wall cards and a first edition of 50,000 copies in pamphlet form of " Twenty Points for London Taxicab Users " are in hand : they will. in the course of the next Few days, be distributed widely.

The drivers of the Harrogate depot of the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., held their first annual dinner on Thursday, 14th April, After dinner, the usual toasts were proposed, and the evening concluded with a concert to which the drivers and mechanics contributed songs, recitations, etc.

The extension of the taxicab branch of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., to Weston-super-Mare, which we reported last month, is now taking definite shape. Large premises have been acquired in Weston, and these will shortly be converted into a garage. The local urban district council, in order, to some extent, to protect the horse-drivers' interests, will not grant licences to ply for hire to the Bristol company just yet.

Cabby's Meal Time.

In the House of Commons, on the 12th inst., Mr. Wiles asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he could state whether the person to be appointed to the Board of Appeal under the new London cab regulations will have a practical knowledge of the cab industry, as well as a thorough acquaintance with the metropolitan street traffic ; and would he state whether, in the regulation as to meal time, the time allowed will be considered to commence from the time a driver put his cab on the rank and ordered his meal to be cooked, or from the time his food was ready? In reply, Mr. Churchill said that the cases to be dealt with by the Board would not be such as to require a practical knowledge of the cab industry. The members would have a thorough acquaintance with the conditions of street traffic generally in the Metropolis. The half-hour allowed for meals would run from the time when the driver received from the constable on duty a notice to put On his cab to show that it was temporarily not for hire.

Jarveys Still Angry.:,

Dublin's jarveys are still indignant at, the suggestion that their uncomfortable albeit picturesque side cars are to be threatened by the importation of taxicabs into the Irish capital. It is difficult to gather, from the statements of the drivers' spokesmen, that there is any other objection to the newer methods than that the various horse " trades would suffer. At the back of this violent opposition is a steadfast hatred, amongst certain classes, in Dublin, of anything English. The fear of the importation of English-built taxicabs is enough theroughly to incense the Irish side-car driver. It is even conceivable that French or Italian-built motorcabs fitted with German tires and (:;.ertnan taximeters would not be so unacceptable. Conditions are unfavourable in Dublin for the successful establishment of a taxicab factory.

New Argyll Cabs in London.!

According to Mr. S. J. Hutcheson. of Argylls. Ltd., the Argyll works are going day and night, and they are very hard pressed to keep paes with the orders which are coming in. Touching on the commercial side of the above business, the new Argyll cabs seem to be as popular as ever. and recent orders have been received or deliveries made to the Park Motor Co., of London (25 cabs), as well as to

other users in London. Buyers in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Burnley, Birkenhead, Bury-St.Edmunds, Truro, etc., are to be noted, additionally. The 1910 Argyll cab, as now sold, is fitted with a fourcylinder engine of the company's own design, with cylinders of 80 by 120 num. cast in pairs, the valves being arranged all on one side. This power unit is termed a 12-15 11.1). type; it gives well over 20 h.p. on the brake. After exhaustive tests. the Argyll Co. has adopted the " Zenith " carburetter, and great care has been taken with regard to the lubrication, which is by forced feed to the bearings with a restricted dip for the big ends, the main sump being well clear of

Yarmouth Town Council has agreed that the hackney-carriage by-laws in Force in the borough are all that is required at the present time for taximeter cabs. Licences have been granted to Mr. E..1. Midtileton for six taximeter cabs, and the following scale of charges has been fixed : (a) for a mile, not more than two persons, ls. ; (b) exceeding one mile, for each quarter of a mile, 3d.; (c) for more than two persons, each person 6d.; (d) luggage, for each package, 2d. ; (e) waiting, per hour, 4s., or (f) for each quarter of an hour, Is. It is to be regretted that some system has not been initiated whereby motorcab fares should be uniform throughout the Provinces.

New Registrations.

Crompton-Darras Taximeter Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of f1,000 in kJ shares, and with its office at Salisbury House, London Wall, E.C., to purchase, construct and let. on hire automobiles, motorcars, motors, carriages and vehicles of all

kinds. Directors : H. Stevenson (Chairman), Salisbury House, London Wall, E.C. ; It. J. Marx, 133-9, Finsbury Pavement, E.G.; Mr. E. Kleeman, 15, Victoria Street, S.W.; A.. J. Hodgson, Arc Works, Chelmsford; and E. H. F. Reeves, Salisbury House, London Wall, E.C.

them, while the oil pun: p is placed on the camshaft side of the magneto.

At Yarmouth.


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