London Taxi Drivers
HARD TIMES FACED LONDON, Sept. 23. Hundreds of London taxi drivers are hard hit or thrown out of work as a result of peLroi rationing and A.R.P. commandeering. “Ration boons are being issued to cabs for 60 gallons of petrol a mouth,” an official of the London Motor-cab Drivers’ Trade Union said this week. “That is roughly two gallons a day for each cab. in London a cao travels about 17 miles per gallon, so that this would give a mileage of 34 miles or so. A taxi-driver reckons tnat about 40 per cent, of tho distance he drives is spent in cruising. 11 That means that if ho is lucky he drives fares for about 20 miles and earns 15s of which he receives 33 1-3 per cent., or ss. “More than 3000 cabs have been commandeered for the Auxiliary Fire -Service and many more liave been taken by local borough surveyors. In many cases the cabs have been taken without the drivers. There are about 5000 cabs left iu London with 10,000 drivers to .drive them,”-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 10
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181London Taxi Drivers Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 10
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