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For the week ending 22nd April the General Motor Cab Co.'s traffics show a decrease of £4,500 on those ,of the corresponding week last .yea I.
A Debenture Charge.
Savigear Motor Cab Co., Ltd., Aebenture dated 20th March, 1911, to secure £1,000, charged on the company's undertaking and property present and future.
Horseless Berlin.
In order to reduce the number of lhorsecabs in Berlin, the chief of police of that city offers to supply .proprietors with one taxi licence for every IO horse-drawn vehicles -which they withdraw from service. No more licences for horse-drawn eabs are to be issued.
By the end of next month, it is expected that there will be 100 taxicabs on the streets of Edinburgh.
Amongst, the latest taxicabs to be put into service in Shrewsbury, a town which is probably as well served in this respect as any of its size in the country, is a 15 h.p. Napier. This vehicle is the pioperty of Messrs. Henry Franklin and Sons, Swanhill.
The General's Taximeters.
The case in which Henry Alcorn, a taximeter fitter, is charged with conspiracy with others to cheat and defraud the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., by fraudulent tampering ith taximeters, after the hearing of certain expert evidence, was adjourned on the 11th inst. for a
month. The co-defendant Ellerington, it will be remembered, did not surrender to his bail at the previous hearing, Co-operation in Cot onopolis.
Small taxicab owners at Manchester have formed an organization called the City Taxicab Association ; there are at present about -10 members Owing to the limited number of cabs in the possession of these owners in the past they have frequently had to refuse to book orders, but it is hoped by means of the co-operative movement that has now been initiated to secure a larger proportion of the business that is offering. Mr. J. E. Carroll is the manager of the association and he has opened a small office for the association's business.