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" No Reply, Ring Again, Please."
The Times of India," in a recent issue, contains a letter from a correspondent in which he complains that while a Bombay cab company urges hirers to call cabs by telephone, the man in charge of the telephone at the garage "knows no word of English."
For Shelterless Cab Ranks.
The experimental telephone call-box, which is to he fitted to an electric-light standard alongside a cab-rank which has no shelter, in Kensington, should be of considerable assistance both to the public and to the cab-driver. We devote some space, on the first page of this issue, to a further consideration of this interesting departure.
Gamage-Bell in Westminster.
Westminster City Council, on 13th bast, passed plans that had been submitted by Mr. C. W. Stephens, architect, of buildings that it is proposed shall be erected by the Gamage-Bell Motor Cab Co., Ltd., on a portion of the Council's Grosvenor Canal property. The City Engineer reported that it was intended to pull down the major portion of the existing buildings and to put up new ones for use as a motor garage and repair shops.
Can't Have Been to Paris.
The Dublin Trades Council and the Dublin County Council are two of the most-recent bodies to adopt resolutions protesting against progress, in the form of the introduction of taxicabs in the city. The chairman of the County Council, however, said that the number of accidents in Dublin due to the fact, that the city is " the worst-policed, so far as traffic is concerned, in the world." He added that, in his opinion, the taxicab was safer than the outside car.
A learner, who was driving a Sheffield taxicab belonging to the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., recently failed to negotiate a corner and drove his machine through a café window and nearly into an underground billiard room.
Shifting the Meter.
In March, 1908, the London County Council agreed to let a portion of a disused tramway depot and the land adjoining, in Queen's Road, Battersea, to Meter Cabs, Ltd., on a threeyears agreement, at a rent of £220 a year. The tenants have recently gone into liquidation, and the liquidators have given notice to determine the tenancy. The plant and business have been sold to Jarrott, Ltd., which company has offered to pay a rent of
£200 a year and rates and taxes for a three-year tenancy ; this offer has been accepted.
Stoewers in Stettin.
When the fleet of five Stoewer taxicabs was delivered, in July last, to its purchasers, the Stettiner Taxameter Drosehken-Gesellschaft, of Stettin, steps were immediately taken to arrange a 1,000-kilometre test run with the vehicles through Pomerania. After six days of hard running, with inexperienced drivers, over roads of bad surface, the five cabs were placed straightaway into service. They have since behaved so well that the owners write to Messrs. Stoewer Bros. :—"We feel compelled to assure you of our highest satisfaction by these perfect cars."