THE OLD-TIME CABBIE
Eighty old men gathered lor a tea-party in the West Ena. To • were the last of London’s old cabm - the men w r ho drove the “growls - in the pre-taxicab era, and t -*• average age w r as nearly 80. Tom,” their senior, is 88. br It was the winter “treat” S ive “ i2 . the Cabdrivers’ Benevolent sS . r tion, at Maison Lyons, Shaftes • Avenue, W., to its pensioners
candidates for pensions. . . Some of the guests their pers.” They dressed in the fasn of the past, but their h ear J® » a young, and they gave “Old TO rousing reception wrhen he got 9 speak.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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108THE OLD-TIME CABBIE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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