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We understand that a subsidiary company has been formed, by Robert Bell, Ltd., for the supply of four-cylinder Renault cabs on the hire-purchase systemThis concern is called the Empire Taxicab Co.
Orders for Two New Fleets.
W. A. Stevens, Ltd., advises us that it has just received orders for two new fleets of buses, in addition to the large numbers which are already in hand for Thomas Tilling, Ltd., and the Newcastle Corporation Tramways, The new fleets are to be respectively (if 20 machines for the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and six for the Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramways Co. All these motorbuses will be on TillingStevens petrol-electric chassis of the latest type.
Commission to Discuss Figures. A further meeting of all those concerned in connection with the Board of Trade Commission on London taxicab fares is to be held next week. Confidential figures, which have been obtained by the Commission's accountant from the principal London. owners, will be discussed at that meeting. It is hoped that this will conclude the deliberations, and that the compilation of the report will be prompt. Yet Another League.
A new society, called the Taxicab Drivers' Protection League (including Commercial Drivers) (sic), with temporary offices at 9, Sherwood Street, Piccadilly Circus, W., has been formed. Its avowed objects are : to provide legal aid, and payment of fines for taxi-drivers and other commercial drivers ; to promote more amicable relations between public employers and drivers; to provide doctors for eases of alleged drunkenness :and to provide funeral benefits. The society is in association with the Head Chauffeurs' Club, of which Mr. Plowden is president, and Mr. George R. Sims vice-president_