RADIO CONTROL OF TAXIS
LONDON, Augilst 11. - After the radio-controlled car comes the radio-controlled taxi. Cambridge lias the first radio taxis in Britain, and wherever the cars go , witliin 12 irtilea of the centre of town they are in touch with the offiee. It is elaimed tliat 25 per eent. more work can be done as a result with the same cars and drivers. There is less empty travel/ and quicker direction to new jobs. Each set of transmitting ahd receiving equipment on' a car costs £125, and the iixed station in the effice about £160.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1947, Page 3
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