THE COLOR OF MOTOR CABS IN BERLIN.
+ The president of the police board of Berlin has decreed that all public gas-oline-driven motor cabs must be painted in a shade of brown, and that all elo-ctric motor cabs must be in ivory shades. It is stated that the principal reason for this rule is the louu colors, and excessive decorations, such as 'flower "wreaths, luscious hunches-of grapes, and even bacchanalian symbols, with which the different cab companies have bedecked the machines. • ■
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 7 August 1912, Page 7
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