RIVALRY FROM AIR.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 6

RIVALRY FROM AIR.

LONDON TAXIMEN PROTEST. That the taxi-cab of to-day is already sensing the rivalry of the air taxi of to-morrow was revealed recently at a semi-private meeting of taxi-cab owners in London. Visitors to London to-day who knew London before the war have been noticing the vast difference and improvement in the appearance of the London taxi-cab. Although there are still a large number of rickety old cabs about the London streets, they are finding it difficult to compete with the most arresting lure of smart cabs coloured in chic shades, looking more like private cars, and containing every amenity of a new car, including heating apparatus and a rack containing books and the day's newspapers. However," still more interesting facts were revealed in London at a largely attended meeting of taxi-cab owners and owner-drivers who took the opportunity of their annual dinner to discuss the probabilities of aerial competition. The question arose through the fact that the day before, Colonel, the Master of Semphill, a noted aviator, who was attending a lunch at the Savoy Hotel, took a small seaplane from Hendon and landed on the river Thames just at the foot of the Savoy's water-gate. He carried a taxi passenger with him. Point was added to this demonstration of aerial taxi-faring by the fact that a friend of the Colonel, also bound for lunch, picked up a taxi in Hendon simultaneously with the Colonel taking to his seaplane. He arrived at the Savoy just 40 minutes after his friend. (Hendon is only eight miles from the hotel.) London taxi-cab proprietors feel hurt at the amount of space devoted to the contest and the dismal showing of the taxi-cab —which they pointed out, was not a new recruit to the London ranks. Other remarks made at the meeting betrayed that the tiny saloon car, or sedan, the favourite of the woman driver, is hitting the taxi-cab hard. Every Englishwoman with any means whatever is buying her "luncheon ear" as it is called and reducing her taxi bills to nothing. j Xow, as a means of attracting fe- j minine fares, some ou-uer-drivers are j painting their cabs sky blue, green, mauve, and lemon and installing flowers and coloured curtains, as a bait to feminine fickleness.

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