captain cab wrote:
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
Other manufacturer's of purpose built taxis have offered six seat capacity for well over a decade; LTI have no plans the last time I spoke to AO.
They have always had their 'head in the sand' because we the gullable taxi drivers had no choice but to accept their monopoly position.
Now it's pay-back time & taxi owners are voting with their £ notes & buying other more versatile vehicles from world renowned vehicle maker, which the passengers like better that the LTI model.
Which other manufacturers of purpose built taxis are there?
CC
You know what I mean ..... Mecedes, VW, Citreon, Fiat, Peugeot, Hyundai, Nissan, Vauxhall, Renault etc.
Not purpose built taxis in your sense .....
BUT
BUILT FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING USED AS TAXIS & LICENSED BY NUMEROUS COUNCILS THROUGHOUT THE UK AS TAXIS & HACKNEY CARRIAGES.
And if councils license them as Licensed Taxis or Licensed Hackney Carriages, then they are Taxis or Hackney Carriages. So the manufacturers that made those vehicles did a good enough job to convince those councils that they can, & will continue to do the job that they were made for - to be used as taxis.
Town Police Clauses Act 1847
38 What vehicles to be deemed hackney carriages
Every wheeled carriage, whatever may be its form or construction, used in standing or plying for hire in any street within the prescribed distance, and every carriage standing upon any street within the prescribed distance, having thereon any numbered plate required by this or the special Act to be fixed upon a hackney carriage, or having thereon any plate resembling or intended to resemble any such plate as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be a hackney carriage within the meaning of this Act; and in all proceedings at law or otherwise the term “hackney carriage” shall be sufficient to describe any such carriage: Provided always, that no stage coach used for the purpose of standing or plying for passengers to be carried for hire at separate fares, and duly licensed for that purpose, and having thereon the proper numbered plates required by law to be placed on such stage coaches,
shall be deemed to be a hackney carriage within the meaning of this Act.
Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976
47 Licensing of hackney carriages
(1) A district council may attach to the grant of a licence of a hackney carriage under the Act of 1847 such conditions as the district council may consider reasonably necessary.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection,
a district council may require any hackney carriage licensed by them under the Act of 1847 to be of such design or appearance or bear such distinguishing marks as shall clearly identify it as a hackney carriage.
(3)
Any person aggrieved by any conditions attached to such a licence may appeal to a magistrates' court.
Bearing the above in mind, LTI, if they were aggrieved, would have taken the matter of vehicles built for the purpose of being used as taxi to court. They didn't, so by default they too have accepted them as taxis, perhaps not as purpose built taxis, but certainly as vehicles built for the purpose of being used as taxis.
And so, for that matter, have a great number of councils, because they are better vehicles all round for the job & even Alma Lunt won in the High Court, because the LTI vehicle is p*ss poor in general for taxi work in the 21st century.
And finally Captain, I know & I do appreciate that you have a vested interest in defending LTI .....
after all they are your Conference Partners!!!
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