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4th February 1909
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230 De Dietrich cabs will be put into London service this summer by a new company.

Particulars of Birmingham's exceptionally low tariff were published in our pages five weeks ago. Now, some 20 N.Vol se ley Siddeley vehicles are at work, each with 18-24h1p. engines, and under the direction of Mr. Cecil Harris, the local manager of the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd.

A Fare who Fell Asleep.

Marylebone Police Court, last week, a case was heard in which a taxicab. driver summoned an officer of the 3rd Lancashire Regiment for ;../,-;t 18s. 3d., the amount of a cab fare. The t.)tficer had left the cabman to wait while he dined at an hotel, and the former subsequently fell asleep; when he awoke, he was unable to find the driver, who apparently had taken his departure under the mistaken impression that he had last a fare.

Motoreabs in Germany.

From returns made by the Frankfort Commissioner of Police, vse find that motorcnbs are thus distributed in Germany : Frankfort, 3r ; Hamburg, 39; Altona (Hamburg), 2 ; Hanover, 20 ; Munich, 134; Leipzic, 24; Dresden, 20; Magdeburg, Is; Cologne, ; Breslau, 24; Nuremberg, 40. Cassel and Stettin, both large towns, are unable to boast of a single motorcab. In Frankfort, there are 344 horse-drawn cabs, in addition to the antomcbiles mentioned. Berlin's number probably lies between 1,500 and 2,000 rnotorcabs.

Charroa Taxicabs.

We illustrate, on this page, examples of each of the two latest types of Chz-trron cabs that have recently been placed upon the market. The sole English agency for these products of Charrons, Limited, is in the hands of the London Motor Garage Company, Limited, 33-37, Wardour Street, W. In the issue of this journal for the 15th November last, we published a fully-illustrated description of the technical details of both the LWO-C)linder and four-cylinder

models. The first of the pair of photographs which we reproduce is One of the 8-toh.p two-cylinder Charrons, of which model no less than 300 will shortly be running in the Metropolis for the General Motorcab Company. The second photograph is of one of the 12-16h.p. four-cylinder Charrons; a number of machines of this mcdel has been built for the Egyptian Motor Car Company, and for a cab company in Brussels. Fifty of this type have also been ordered by the Provincial Motor Cab Company.

13,000-mile Cab Tires.

We reproduce, on page 435, Photographs of two motorcabs which are in the constant service of one of the largest London motorcab companies as learners' cars. It will be noticed that these machines are fitted with the now proved " K.T." tires. These two vehicles, which are both Darracqs, have run no less than 12,000 and 1,3,000 miles respectively. The re.markahlv sound condition of the tires after such extensive mileage is evident from examination of our

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trations. Mr. A. E. Gelder, the manager of the " K.T." Syndicate, Limited, tells us that the tires are not even of the latest " bridged" type, and that he expects even better results from the latest improvement.

Anti-Motorcab Demonstration in Brussels.

The Brussels horse-cab drivers possess a peculiar mental calibre, if they imagine that their recent demonstration against the projected introduction of self-propelled cabs can possibly exclude the latter class of vehicle from the streets of the Belgian capital. An incoming tide never was, nor is ever likely to be, stopped by old women wielding mops, however vigorously wielded, Brussels wants the modern vehicle which ether cities of the world have long since had, and will get it sooner or later, demonstration or no demonstration. The Brussels cabmen, many of them with crape-bound whips—surely prophetic of a deadand gone horsetraffic — drove through the principal streets of the city, with their friends and relations seated or standingin the calls and distributing handbills headed " An Appeal to the Population," and with " musique en tete ! " But the band, apart from the fact that it blew "only lively airs," which seem hardly in keeping with the " gravity of the situation," was a mistake, as it gave the procession a circus touch. So far as we can gather, the " population " manifested no inclination to adopt altruistic principles in respect of the demonstrators, but regarded the parade rather as a " source of innocent merriment. "


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