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27th July 1911, Page 7
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During last week, a number of applications was made to the authorities at Chichester for temporary licences for raotorcabs to ply bet wren that city and Goodwood.

Of the 1B Unic cabs belonging to one London garage, we are informed that 16 were sent to Chichester.

Make the Best of It, Barnstaple. A taxicab licence has been issued I o Messrs. A. and F. Northcote and Prideaux, of Barnstaple. Twenty-two local cabmen peti • I jolted that no preferential treatment in the matter of rank accommodation should be afforded for the taxicab ; they had " not the least objection to the issue of the licence."

The L.C.D.T.U. Election.

The voting papers for the election the president and the 12 members of the executive council of the London Cabdrivers' Trade Union have now been posted to the members, and are to be forwarded to the Union's solicitors. It is interesting to note that of the two presidenial candidates, S. Michaels and A. Smith. the former is now driving motorcab, while the other holds a horsed-cab licence. Of the 30 candidates for the executive coon cil, eight are employed by the "\V. and G." company, five by the National Motor Cab Co., and five by the General Motor Cab Co. Only one horse driver is a candidate. The manager of one big London cab garage has invited suggestions as to localities for the installation of telephone boxes for the receipt of orders.

Au the beginning of April last, it will be remembered, a decision of the House of Lords on appeal in the case of Smith v. General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., was to the effect that. for all purposes other than that of third-party damage, a taxicab driver is not a servant but a bailee. Mr. Hodge, Labour M.P. hr Gorton, Lancs., has now introduced in the House of Commons a Bill to amend the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906, in so far as taxicab drivers are el-m(7(111yd.

Brighton in A.D. 1874.

Summoned for charging a lady the sum of Li 13s. in excess of the legal fare, a Brighton taxicab driver said that the fare-plate in his cab was one which had been t ransferred from a horse cab, and that that was I he reason it bore a statement to the effect that hirings could be either by time or by distance. fie was hired for a two-hour drive in the country, and the meter showed 39s. at the end of the period. He admitted the completion of 29 miles in one hour. In giving judgment the Mayor said that under a by-law of 1874 the alternative method of payment was permissible, but that outside the Brighton area they had no jurisdiction. The magistrates found that the hirer intended to pay by time, so that the driver would only be entitled to :is. per hour within the borough boundaries. The cabman was fined is., and had to return 78., the amount charged in excess for the portion of the journey that was made in Brighton.


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