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...your description of the London taxi [April 20] written by an American whose knowledge of England is confined to Hollywoodery, or by a lippitudinous Londoner? Let me disabuse you and him and many an innocent reader: that vehicle, unlike the North American cab, is designed for its special job-which includes the easy coping with as much baggage as any passenger is likely to have . . . And far from being a sort of automobilic coelacanth . . . the London taxi has steadily evolved and has always been equipped with the best current power unit and general equipment...
With some of your criticisms of London taxis any Londoner must agree . . . The basic design of the London taxi has changed little with the years, yet . . . the "rubber bulb horn and the wheezy engine" have now been superseded by a large and growing fleet of "radio cabs," conforming ... to a design intended to make turning and parking easy in narrow streets, yet clean, up-to-date and as comfortable as most cabs in most cities. We still have a few Georgian relics . . . but they are vanishing fast. Some, no doubt, have gone to California where, for the next few years...
...This is going back on the roof of the Lampoon building," said the youth as he brushed reporters aside to get into a taxi that had been waiting for him throughout the interview...
...London taxi-durable, unchanging and old-fashioned as a Prince Albert coat -is a rolling exemplar of a British view of life. It is designed to 1) negotiate streets whose narrowness memorializes the Briton's refusal to change anything old, 2) protect a person's sacred right of privacy, 3) commemorate the principle that every man-in this case, the cabbie-must keep his proper place...