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-ice WS contributions are invited: payment will be made on publication Paris now has 5,0, Ili taxicabs.
Hall Spare Motor Wheel, Ltd., has secured an order for 1,000 of its e heels from a large cab company after series of exhaustive trials.
The Star-wheel Trick.
On Monday last a driver was sum-.oried at Lam'oeth by the General Motor Cab Co., for the alleged theft of certain sums of money by the wellmown means of disconnecting the taxiireter star-wheel on long journeys.
The Reason Why.
A correspondent writes to us with ega rd to a paragraph which appeared our last issue, in which we referred :a the fact that some of the Livertool taxicab drivers found it hard to make both ends meet. We concluded with tile facetious inquiry " Cannot they even purloin the extras? " Our correspondent kindly reminds us that filet* are no extras chargeable in 7.iverpool. That is the precise reason why they cannot be purloined!
An Elaborate Hiring Fleet. The Electromobile Co., Ltd., 7, Hertiord Street, Mayfair, notifies us that it has recently inaugurated a new con:.ern, which is to be known as the Hertord Street Motor Hiring Co., Ltd. This new undertaking will cater for the private hiring of luxurious limousines, '.;arulaulets and touring cars. The Electromobile Co. was established in year 1902, and until recently was ocated at premises in Curzon Street,
Mayfair. An interesting feature of
terms of business which are offered -oo clients by this new hiring concern is the combined contract, by which the use of a petrol car in the country and an electromobile in town, may be assured as cunvenience dictates Sutton Starts a Service.
We illustrate on this page the first wo of a proposed fleet of six taxicabs with which the Sutton Motorcab Co., td., intends to do business in that Surrey town. It will be seen that the first two vehicles are Utiles; they are c,f the 12-14 h.p. four-cylinder type, and have very nicely-finished fourseated bodies by Christopher Dodson, 7,t41. This company is able to depend to a large. extent on its already-existing i•rivate-hire elienti4e, and it does not anticipate any difficulty in supplementing this by ordinary public hirings, both in the town and between Sutton and the Metropolis. The first two machines of this new fleet carry Hall spare wheels and are fitted with French Avon tires in all cases.
The S.M.M.T. has voted the sum of .C23 to the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association.
At an extraordinary general meeting of the Kensington Taxi Cab Co., Ltd., a resolution was passed to the effect that the company be wound up voluntarily. Mr. Charles John My son, 80, Cromwell Road, Kensington, was appointed liquidator.
Belsize Confidence.
In the course of the chairman's speech at the fourth annual general meeting of the shareholders of Belsize Motors, Ltd., which was held last week in Manchester, the chairman referred to the large increase in the amount of business that the company had transacted in connection with its taxicab and commercial-vehicle products. Ho stated that orders for motorcabs continued to be received in increasing numbers, and that in his opinion there is a great future for this branch of Belsize Motors, Ltd., which, as yet, is only in its infancy.
Aron Taximeters in Use.
With reference to a paragraph which appeared in this section in our last issue, with regard to taxicabs in Brussels, it has been pointed out to us that it may be of interest to many of our readers to know that the vehicles belonging to the Brussels Motor Cab Co., Ltd., are provided with Aron fare-registering machines. In this connection it should also be recorded that 125 Aron taximeters are to be fitted to the motorcabs which are in the service of the Australian Cab Co., about which our Australian correspondent had something to say in his contribution to our last issue. Thirty-five of these instruments are already fitted, and the remainder is shortly to be installed.
Acrobatic Passengers.
In spite of the fact that a taxicab skidded in the course of its driver's efforts to avoid a motorbus, ran on to the pavement, knocked off a front wheel, then fell down an embankment to a piece of ground 12 ft. below, the three passengers and the driver are reported to have sustained no injury.
A Curious Transference.
We have received several inquiries as to the status of the Universal Motor Cab Co. Ltd., from holders of stock in an electric theatre undertaking, which seems to have come to the end of its tether. Shareholders in the latter concern have been offered, in exchange for their holdings, " fullypaid preferred participating ordinary shares " in the cab company, on certain conditions. The Universal Motor Cab Co., Ltd., has its headquarters in Blythe Road, Kensington, and at present has 10 [lumbers and 10 Argylls.
A Business Government in Sheffield.
Our attention has been drawn to the public-spirited manner in which the Hackney Carriage Committee of the Sheffield City Council has collaborated with the local proprietors during the drafting of special regulations for the control of the local taxicab traffic. Such commonsense and businesslike methods are far too infrequent in connection with municipal procedure, and it affords us particular pleasure to draw the attention of other local authorities to these methods of the Sheffield licensors, in the hope that similar facilities will be forthcoming in future elsewhere. Such an unprovement would do much to facilitate the satisfactory establishment of efficient public services in many other provincial towns.