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9th December 1909
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Taxicabs will shortly appear on the streets of Colombo (Ceylon).

At the 30th September, of 6,308 cabs in Berlin, 938 were of self-propelled types. Both first-class and secondclass horse-cabs are steadily decreasing now.

The extra pressure On our space, this week, renders it impossible for us to publish a review, as we had hoped to ,do, of the General Motor Cab Co.'s position and prospects, but the postponement is only for seven days.

"See me Reverse."

While reversing on the Hallesches Uter (Halle Bank) of the Landwehrkanal, a Berlin motorcab driver backed himself and his vehicle into the canal. Before disappearing into the water, the cab Ining for a moment on the coping, and the only passenger, a lady, seized the cpportunitv to spring out, and place herself in a position of safety. The chauffeur was .speedily hauled out of the canal, but it cost considerable time and trouble to raise the cab on to the banking. Several thousand people witnessed the operations of rescue. The vehicle was greatly damaged : see page 277.

Fire Extincteurs Still Required. An Official Denial.

A rumour has been current recently, in certain motorcab circles, that, in view of the additional expense to which owners would be put by the order for the compulsory fitting of .speed-alarms, as some compensation, the Commissioner of Police would no longer require the carrying of fire extineteiirs, both on motorcars and motorbuses. We are authorized to deny this rumour, and to state that extincteurs will still have to be pro

vided. The Scotland Yard authorities are not favourably dispased to the use, for public-service machines, of hooter.; having more than one note.

Argylls Score in the U.S.A.

" The best and smartest taximeter cabs in town " are the terms in which the Universal Taximeter Cab Co., of 153-157, East Fifty-third Street, New York City, speaks of the fifty 14-16 lep. Argyll motorcabs which it has in service. The machines, one of which is shown on this page, are employed by the Knickerbocker Hotel in the Broadway, and give a reliable service. All the vehicles bear the hotel's monogram in large brass letters on the radiator, the bodies, etc., being finished in black with broad green stripes, and with imitation cane-work on the door panels. In the Spring, Mr. John H. Naughton, treasurer of the cab company, spent sonic weeks in England and on the Continent, to study motorcab developments, and Ima eventually decided to purchase fifty from the Argyll Co. These have all been imported in chassis form, -the laudaidet bodies having been built, in Boston, to the cab company's designs; the complete vehicles have a total weight of 2,350 lb.

In addition to the cabs, the Universal Taximeter Cab Co., is reported to have secured the American agency for the Argyll productioas. It has also taken up the agency for the Richert taximeters, these being fitted to the Knickerbocker Hotel's Argyll cabs, the charges for %Odell run to 2s. for the first half-mile or fraction of it with 5d. for each succeeding quarter-mile, the same amount being charged for each six minutes the vehicle is kept waiting. Packages or trunks earried outside are charged for at 10:1. apiece, and, if the vehicle is dismissed outside the boundary, the passenger must pay the return fare at the rate of 1s. &I. per mile. The above charges apply for one or four passengers, there being no extra charge for night service. Ferry and tolls levied at bridges must be paid by the passengers. The drivers of these cabs are paid £3 10s. a week, the company supplying fuel and all necessaries for running—but it costs a lot to live in New York.

Adams Motoreabs for the Colonies.

The Adams Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of 106, New Bond Street, W., has an immediate prospect of placing some 25 of its new 14-16 h.p. fourcylinder cabs in service at Montreal, this make of cab, fitted with the threespeed epicyclic gear, after exhaustive trials, having been considered particularly suitable for use in cities or neighbourhoods where expert treatment in the hands of drivers is out of the question. Consistent running has been quite a feature of even the earlier types of Adams motorcabs; one, while in the service of the North London Motor Cab Co., Ltd., ran 179 days out of a possible 182, covering in the meantime 12,102 miles on 636 gallons of petrol. This figure gives an average mileage per gallon of 19. A total of 92 14s. 2d. was expended en necessaries, in keeping this cab going for the six months under notice, the details being: petrol, £18 11s.; lubricants, te 28. ; tires, £03 13s. ed.; and repairs and spares, £4 7s. 8d. In the illustration, the travel-stained vehicle is shown in complete form during a trial run on behalf of the Canadian firm which it is hoped will eventually operate the machines.

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