TAXIS FOR TOPERS
The proprietors of two lines of taxi cabs at Tulsa, Oklahoma (U.S.A.), recently inaugurated a service which, it is thought, will be of the greatest value to the inhabitants of that town (says the New York correspondent of ‘The Times’). When a citizen of Tulsa had passed a cheerful evening he was apt to find himself faced with two unpleasant alternatives —either to drive his own car home, a performance which involved danger to himself and to other users of the streets, or to go home in a taxicab, wth thei tiresome prospect of having to return next day to fetch his car from the scene of the party. The enterprise of two men has removed this bugbear. The cheerful guest has now only to go to the telephone, ring up one of the taxi cab lines, and murmur the words, “ Blotto service, please.” Soon a cab arrives with two employees of the company. One drives the guest home in the taxi cab, while the other follows behind at the wheel of the guest’s own car. At the cost of a double fare much risk and inconvenience has been avoided. The scheme has the fullest support 6f the local police, and will probably, if successful, be extended to other American cities.
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 7
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214TAXIS FOR TOPERS Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 7
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