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News contributions are inrited : payment will be made on publication Meter Cabs, Ltd., is to go into voluntary liquidation. Mr. Frederick Murgatroyd of Manchester has been appointed liquidator.
A new company, with a capital of 5.000, under the title of Watson's Taxis, Ltd., has been registered. Its offices are, at present, at 22, Chancery Lane, W.C.
The B.A. Motor Cab Co., Ltd., to the registration of which we referred a week ago, has Mr. Bernard Metz for one of its directors.
The current traffic return of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., is as follows: For the week ending Saturday, 5th February, the total receipts were £15,058, which is an increase of t1.909 on the corresponding week of last year.
The Polack Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., whose reputation in this country has hitherto rested upon the performance of its solid tires, is now in a position, owing to factory extension, to offer a special line of covers and tubes. A new price list of these specialities is now available.
The Dennis Motorcab.
The Dennis worm-driven taxicab, which is priced at £425 complete with canopy over the driver, is the subject of a special section in an attractivelyproduced new catalogue which Dennis Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, has just issued. This chassis is fitted with a four-cylinder 90 by 110 mm. engine which develops 18 h.p. at 900 revs, per minute.
A new type of motorcab is that known as the " Humid." This is being run by Messrs. Hurst and Middleton, of Windsor Road, Holloway. We illustrate one of these vehicles.
Charged, at Westminster on Monday last, with being drunk whilst in charge of a motorcab, a driver was sentenced to a. month's hard labour, without the option of a fine.
Licences in Request at Eastbourne.
The Eastbourne Watch Committee has received applications for nine new taxicab licences, and the applicants have been informed that the question of granting any additional motorcab licences will be considered next month.
Hull Makes Another Attempt.
Licences have once again been granted for taxicabs by the Hull municipal authorities. The Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., is the successful applicant; 15 machines have now been authorized. The same company, some months ago, withdrew from Hull a small fleet of 18 h.p. cabs which were found to be too large for local circumstances.
A Pessimistic Specialist.
Sir Clifton Robinson, who has recently announced his retirement from the active management of his many tramway interests in this country, is reported to have made the following statement ;—" There is nothing on wheels—I do not even except the taxicab—running in the whole county of London to-day, that is really and truly paying, or even earning a reasonable return upon its capital." The Sanitary Committee of Bath.
In consideration of the fact that local horse-cab owners are reported to be doing everything in their power to secure taxicabs, Bath Sanitary Committee will issue no further motorcab licences to the Bristol Tramway Company for the present.
An " Informer's " Cab Fares.
A short time ago, a woman was prosecuted, at the West London Police Court, at the instance of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., for "hiring a taxicab knowing she could not pay her fare." It appears that, on previous occasions, she had driven to a police-station, with the intention of giving information of value to the police, and the fares had been paid for her by the authorities. In the latest instance, her information was of no value, and the police would not " square the cabby."
It Takes Time in Blackpool.
After innumerable committee meetings and endless discussion, the Blackpool authorities have finally decided to postpone the licensing of taxicabs for nine months. The local Carriage Proprietors' and Livery Stables Proprietors' Associations have asked for this period of delay, in order to "afford them an opportunity of obtaining the fullest information as to the cost and working of taxis." We shall be happy to afford these cautious proprietors the most-complete information, if they really desire it, in considerably-less time than nine months—it may be secured, in fact, by return if they will send us a. post-card.