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The Lewisham Automobile Garage, a,-if 272-274, High Street. Lewisham, :has ordered two Be!size taxicabs for :local use.
Bombay now has two motorcab com:panies at work. The average takings are reported to vary between 20s. and :28s. per day.
A wheel came elf a taxicab, at SunAlerlaud, on Saturday night last, and -za number of pedestrians were injured in consequence.
Hirers are not obliged to take the itirst cab on any rank, hut only the (driver of the first cab has the right to ,offer his services—in London.
Bath magistrates think 8 m.p.h. a 41angerous speed, but that is rarely the ,case, even round a corner, with vehic:es whose brakes are in order.
Standard Taxicabs.
Friswell (1906), Ltd., has not been vlosely identified as yet with commermial vehicles. A few Londonderry -steam wagons were sold once. It may be news to a good many to hear that Mr. F. 0. Ridout. of 2. Upper Market Street, Hove, is now successfully using -several of the 1'2-16 h.p. four-cylinder Standard chassis as taxicabs. One of -the cabs is shown, herewith, on the front at Brighton, where they are re-ported to be popular. They are naturally fitted with the regulation taxi-meter indicating Is. a mile and 3d. for mtach succeeding quarter, and they are ocapablc of turning in the 25-foot
which prescribed by the Com:missioner of Nike for use in the :metropolis. Hire-purchase of Motorcabs.
Four-cylinder motorcabs are now being offered, on the deferred-payment system of purchase, by a commission agent, whose instructions are that the maker's name is not to be divulged until the contract is signed. The terms quoted arc: £25 deposit ; the balance by monthly instalments of £16 each. We fear that the makers will have quite a crop of reversions, when repairs become due ; experience in this class of dealing indicates the comparative nevessity to get £100 down in bard cash.
A first and final dividend of Is.
ill the pound has been declared in the bankrupt estate of the .lottir Cab and Van Supply Co., Ltd., Museum Station Buildings, 133, High Holborn, W.C.
At an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the Torino Motor Cab Co., [AA., held at the registered offices, 3. Pennant Mews, Cromwell Road, S. W., a resolution was passed to the effect that the company
be wound up voluntarily. Mr. D. F. Basden, 33, St. Swithin's Lane, E.G., was appointed liquidator.
New Registration.
Lester's (Walsall) Garage, Ltd, (private company), with an authorized capital of £2,000 in £1 shares, and with its registered office at 79, Bridge Street, Walsall, to carry on the business of motorcab and taxicab proprietors. Subscribers : H. Lester and J. H. TIawkins.
The Royal Warrant to Dunlop's.
A fitting honour has been conferred upon Mr. Harvey du Cros, the chairman of the Dunlop Co., in the granting of the Royal Warrant for pneumatic tires; we do not wonder that Mr. Harvey du Cros's own personal gratification has been reflected in a letter which he has addressed to the company's employees. Following the receipt of notification of the appointment, he, in an open letter to the company's employees, expressed the view that the choke of the Dunlop tire would immensely please the many thousands of Englishmen employed in its production and sate.
In Dublin.
Dublin's Anti-Taxi Association is getting funds together ; it had £170 in hand a few days ago. The local papers do not appear to know that licences for hackney-carriages are issued under the Irish Police Act of 1854, and that the drivers are not merely regulated by the Motor Car Acts of 1896 and 1903.
Our contemporary " The Motor News " has been interviewing Mr. Harvey du Cros on the subject of his generous offer to train Dublin jarvies, which offer has been received most, ungraciously. Mr. du Oros explained that the limited range of a horsedrawn vehicle did not enable visitors to Dublin to see the beauties of the district. He thus summarized the difference between horses and motors: " Your journeys on the former are limited to the stamina of the horse, but on the taxi you are only bounded by the area. The motor can go anywhere at any time and do anything."
The claims of proprietors and drivers of Dublin jaunting cars, to special consideration at the hands of the public whom they seek grievously to inconvenience by their obstinacy, deserve but scant attention. Readers of this journal will recollect that, so far back as our issue of the 23rd April, 1908, we forecasted the present cont Fete m ps.