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A• -sing mit of a recent taxicab acideeie iemplaints are heing made of the stroke lighting of many of Aberdeen's thou edeilfares.
Wc knee of a capacious garage awl nue-eine shop in the north of London whice emild suit n motoreab owner with a moderate-sized fleet.
paees -150-151 in this issue, we all article on the Knowledge a I. tests, winch are at the prese-nt time so serioesle restricting the sepply of suitable drivers.
V, ,a big Deblin's short-sighted examp'e, the side-car drivers of Derry are :eutesting vehemently on aceount of u!: ;11.1)1 ivation to he Corporation for ovo licetwes for taxicabs,
A ....eilway " to the extent of
vst the offender 1:8 Sc, on Thui'esItuat Westminster. It is a pity thar 71; a same effective measures are oi application in :ill cases of
" Taximan" Applications.
to the notification which :dad k• im the " Motoreab 'Fopics "
'a cur last issue., we have received nesader it applications for the posi tirefi)renlaii mid fitter in a London 'iiilupe ne's sheds The best ef tie, ;dive been forwarded to the right quilee-e
New Registration.
ry Aloter, Cab Co., Ltd.,
rvi1 at iiiithorized capital of .#22,000 in el shares, and with its office at the offices iit Messrs. Griffiths and Keeling, 1fte, Culneire How, Birmingham, to 'artA on the business indicated by the tithe First directors: A. H. Crump (ma caging thirector) and H. Keeling.
Genic is temp:warily laxicabless. I it oue lirtensed motorciali got caught between the elites ou a level-crossing and it lost a whke-d, We have a request from one of London's hirgest cab eompanies for in
with regrird to a suitable garage in neatthe eentra I districts
of London.
An Aberdeen taxi-driver was, one day last week, haled I:efore the magistrates for having left his taxicab unattended ti r 20 minutes while he went to a bi!liard saloon.
A National Sporting Club.
The National Motor Cab Co.'s Athletic. Chili is to hold a boxing tournament enrly in the present month for -the benefit le' a driver. It is under:stood that Messrs. Jewell and 13axter will again take part in the " time and distanee • operations.
"Brixton" Enjoys Itself.
The an ii dinner of the engineering staff of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., whieh was announced in our last issue, ens held en Sattirday, the 2811-i uIt., at t he London Bridge Hotel. The maimging director, Mr. Edgar Cohen, iris iii the choir, :tad Mr. Cleo, Pollard, M.f.MevidE., the geueral manager of the Brixton extablishmenl, together with others of the eompany's oilleials, supported him. Curers were laid for 200, and the toasts were in the hands
of Messrs. Cohen and Pollard. The
excellent 'no 'cut folloe-ed the
dinner wait contributed to by several members of the staff, and Mr. Edgar Cohen [wined himself to he in raconteur of no mean merit ; it was thus thathe assisted to entertain. A taxidriver in the employ of the Comity Garage at Preston, was last week fined 20s. and costs :for drivieg past some schools ut Co prottortion of running vehicles of the total fleet of the "W. nnd establishment at .Aeton has reeently attained a re.markably-bigh retie.
Revised Accommodation.
The Building Committee of the London County COUlleil has consented to two divisions at the premises of the National Motor Cab Co., Ltd.. 231, Hammersmith 11 oa d a nd if; rent a u rub .I.ane, Hammersmith, exceeding in extent 250,000 cubic feet. They have further consented to division-wail openings of a larger size titan specified in Section 18 of the L.C.C. (Gemmel :Powers) Act, 1908.
Passing Along An Order.
A correspondent tells us of a case of sonic interest svhich occurred a few days ago at Portsmouth. IL appears that a driver, who was plying for hire ou one of the ranks, agreed to be at a certain house in sufficient time to enable the hirer to catch a certain train. Meantime, hor,ever, this same driver secured another and a longer job, viz., to Whale Island ; the previouslyhooked (inter lie missed on to another man—a procedure which is frequently adopted. The second driver started in plenty of time to pick up the fare hut something went wrong with tlic cab and he was unable to reach tle house in time. The hirer smumono2 driver No. 1 for breach of eontract, and he obtained a conviction with a fine of 5s. at the Portsmouth Police Court. Hirers should carefully note particulars of such contracts,