A new cab is described on pages 92-3 of this issue.
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The new Paris tariffs, and the new methods of indicating which tariff is in force upon the flags on the recording instruments, to which we referred at some length in our issue of txth February, will come into force on the isth instant.
The Brussels Motor Cab Company, Limited, with an authorised capital of ,t5o,000, has been registered by Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, Crisp and Company. The first directors are : Messrs. P. Nagelmackers; Baron de Steenhault de Waerbeck; and Sir William J. Bell.
Edinburgh Cabs.
At the twelfth annual general meeting of John Croall and Sons, Limited, at Edinburgh, a profit of £8,823 was reported. It was resolved to pay a five per cent. dividend, and to place some -A;2,5oo to reserve. The Chairman, Mr. G. G. Tod, remarked that there had been a great falling off in the revenue from the horse-cab department, but that the takings of the motorcab branch had exceeded their highest expectations. It was, how ever, too soon to say exactly what the expenses of renewals and upkeep would prove to be, and the directors did not feel in a position yet to declare that the motorcabs, in a city like Edinburgh, could be considered a really paying proposition, although they promised well now. The Lord Provost's Motorcab.
The Glasgow Corporation has resolved that the Lord Provost shall have either a motorcar or a motorcab at his disposal, at any time that it suits his convenience to use one. Certain objections were raised to this course, but it was pointed out that the same facilities were afforded to the gas manager and other officials.
To the Grand Natioaal.
On Thursday, the 251h ultimo, a party left Cambridge, in one of the Provincial Motor Cab Company's 20h.p. Charron taxicabs, to attend the Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool. Cambridge was left at 4 p.m. and a good run was made through Huntingdon, Thrapston, Kettering, Leicester, and Derby to Ashbourne, where a stop was decided upon for the night. The journey was resumed at 8.30 the next morning, and excellent running was made over the Derbyshire hills through Leek, Congleton, Northwich and 'Warrington to Aintree, at which place the taximeter registered 174s. 6d. The return journey was taken through Warrington, Tarporley, Shrewsbury, Birmingham, Coventry, Daventry, Northampton and Bedford. A total mileage of 364i miles with only one involuntary stop—a puncture.
Taxicabs at Brighton.
The Brighton Town Council, at its last meeting, was invited to decline to license motorcabs which belonged to the Provincial Motor Cab Company, Limited, owing to the fact that the same cabs were licensed to ply in other places. After discussion, the Council refused to accede to this reactionary proposal.
The Speed of a Taxicab. 7
One day last week the driver of a 8h.p. Renault taxicab belonging to the General Motor Cab Company was summoned at Richmond (Surrey) for exceeding the 2o-m.p.h. speed limit. The driver gave it as his opinion that it was impossible to drive one of these small Renaults at a greater speed than 19 miles an hour. The police said it could do 28 miles an hour, and the magistrates fined the driver Li and costs.