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London taxi drivers see it all when out on the roads.
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Good just keep on !!
SUPERB ♥️🙏
Black luxury
Taxi driver and driver of your flight but we can move on the position of the week for the next few days as I have not had 444tttt I think are the same thing for me and my wife 31st birthday 5D I will be in the morning and the other one was the one I will 77778😊
fx3 best taxi ever
Dad tried an FX3 in his taxi fleet in 1962, the rest were standard vanguard's,it didnt last long, think it was replaced by a Standard Atlas minibus , after that he had Simca 1000s then cortinas, mk 1,then 2 then 3.
I do miss the old fashion FX4s and Fairways when I'm still living and studying in UK around early 2010s! They're a fleet of charming vehicles and they should deserve a long lease of life like the old Routemaster buses!
Gotta be a Savant to be a cab driver 8n London!
What the heck does "Africa" mean?? Is Africa one monolithic identity? Why didn't you put Europe or Asia?? Africa has 54 nations and over a billion people of diverse nationality, culture and languages. How then do you end up with the mindset of using one image to depict an entire continent? And by the way, Egypt is in Africa! There is no nation called "German". London is not a country. It would be beneficial for you if you got an education before making videos. Away with you and your stupid video!!
I had the privilege to drive a silver TX1 SE for the Blind Veterans UK charity for 3 years. It is very spacious internally, the back seats fold upwards and a jump seat can be fitted next to the driver. Although the mpg never got beyond 15 and the top speed is 97.9 mph.
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Here's a story for you. My dad is a London Taxi Driver and has been for over 40 years. A friend of his (another cabbie) came across this video and showed it to my dad. When he watched it for the first time something caught his eye but he wasn't totally sure about it. So he watched it again, and again and again. It turns out that the driver picking up from Victoria Station at 3:38 and 8:24 in the video is his Grandad Mick, so my Great Grandad. What are the chances of that eh??? I've since watched this video a thousand times. I just about remember my Great Grandad Mick as he died when I was very young, but what an amazing video and a story to go with it.
london is not a country
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J354LLO, that Metro was my Dads cab for years. Special edition in Navy Blue with Red pin-striping and leather seats inside. Mad that I’ve just spotted it on here!
😂🤣😂 I don’t what London cabs or cabbies are like these days but some of the cabbies here in Australia are bloody shocking especially in Sydney where a lot were lucky to speak English let alone take you where you want to go without needing directions. As for the cabs themselves I’ve been in my fair share of death traps over the years
magic. time travel
Whaddya think I got, a blooming helicopter?
I opened a barn door in nsw Australia and there was a 1950 black can....
"London cabbies politest in the world" 🤣🤣
Cab drivers in London are being squeezed out of business by the corrupt TFL. Will be a sad day when the iconic black cab disappears of our streets.
All be out of a job anyway within the next 20 years as the autonomous “Johnnycabs” take over…
Taxi🚕🚖🚕🚖.
I got to ride in a London Taxi whilst I was visiting England. I found the car quite comfortable. If only our American taxi was this comfortable.
Funny to watch and listen to my late father Roy Cuming
Is that him at 10.08? I thought it was Tommy Godfrey.
Which one is he?
Forty eight years licensed now (i'm 69) and apart from this awful pandemic which has crucified business at present and forced me to give my rented taxi back to the fleet owner on the last week of March 2020 (I was also an owner driver for forty years) I will be returning when, hopefully, things get better later this year. I still feel like i'm forty and although feeling a little anxious about returning, especially due to some of the road changes due to that vertically challenged present mayor of ours, Khan, and some of the councils with their LTN schemes, I want to get back. I feel for those younger than I in this trade with mortgages or rent and possibly having a family to support because Covid-19 has side swiped our trade, as with other trades I realise we're not the only one's. But as mentioned with others I definitely feel that the London taxi trade was in decline before the pandemic from around 2012. It certainly is nothing like it used to be, but being solipsistic I do not have the pressures that I used to have anymore plus my wife is an essential worker (education) and both my daughters are working plus I get the state pension. So i'm still here..... just. As far as the "black colour bit" is concerned. Out of the three cabs I owned two were not black. One was a non metallic grey "Fairway FX4" and the other was a "Fairway Driver FX4" and the colour was called Rover Storm grey which was a metallic finish. By the way I never have and never will wear a flat cap, sound like Sid James or say gawd blimey guvnor. But I do remember the older FX3 taxis as my late dad drove one and when that model was finished he then bought, over the years, a couple of FX4's. One saying we do have in this trade that I use is...."Be lucky". I'll also add on "be safe" as well given our present pandemic situation.
Nice post mate. You sound like you enjoyed your work. Hope you manage to return.
@@edwardoleyba3075 Thanks for that, I returned back to work around four weeks ago. Whilst business is not as it was before the pandemic fortunately I can take a 40 / 50% cut in my earnings, especially as most fleet owners are renting out their cabs at lower amounts like the one I rent from. I feel the work situation is going to take a while to get back to a semblance of normality (as with certain other businesses) but as I said above, I will "get through" it unscathed. So many drivers have left this trade, not just because of the pandemic, although it has definitely accelerated it, but also over the last eighteen months or so there are around four and a half thousand less taxis now. This is partly to do with the age limit imposed by Johnson when mayor and with Khan who has exacerbated it. Plus the cost of the hybrid TXE taxi is a mere £61K cash price (so without interest) sheer madness. Also there are hardly any students on the "Knowledge Of London" now compared with the past.
@@licensedtaximan4271 . That’s great. Good for you. Best Wishes.
Hang in there, chum! 🚕🚕🚕
Typical believer of the second cult. I believe this is provided by the mind and not the first that was initially thought. 😀👍💀💀
That was an awesome demo
You know it's London when you hear someone say `Diabolical Liberty`.
I retired as a London cab driver 5 years ago , at 68 years old ,after 37 years in the trade. I reckon I got out at just the right time. I knew many of the people featured in this film. Roy Cuming in particular. He was superintendent of The Royal British Legion Taxi Driver Training School in Brixton Road , Kennington. I was trained there in 1980 to 81. Roy was a brilliant teacher and a really nice man.
I grew up in Kennington Oval and I had forgotten there was the taxi driving school across from the park.
I was there after you, Roy was a lovely man.
My God that’s Why I deal with classic cars because it’s the best thing to deal with
Man do I need my 1960 fix ! Can't be doing with this Covid 19 , not to mention everyone walking round with their earphones in, and their smart phones in their hands, and don't forget the other fashion accessory, a plastic bottle of water ! Strewth,, what have we become ?.
Now London is all diversity and knife crime. Those cycles parked up would be stolen within seconds.
yey for diversity!
Is the knife crime everywhere?
Geezer on the bicycle looks like the bloke on "the royle family"
Dem car yah
Still a few going in Glasgow
Do you ever see fx; in London now? When did they get withdrawn
Why would anyone take an Uber - when you can travel in a proper taxi driven by the world's best trained taxi drivers.
Not the same vibe uber is i prefer these old taxi cabs. But I'm not to keen on the new London cabs. I love the smell and sound of a good reliable Bmc diesel.
I am please to say that I have never used an Uber car and never will.
@@teddybirmingham7608 What's wrong with them?
Never use Uber
@@Maximus20778 Watch the American chap in the video. He talks about the difference between London and New York cabbies. You can at least double that for Uber drivers.
You'd have to be crazy to do the knowledge and invest in a cab these days.
Taxi drivers training school with a professor teaching. Nice!
7.00 have you ever heard anyone talking such stupid s^^t . No wonder the Brit car industry went belly up.
He left the bicycle without billions of chains on it.....such a madness 😁
My Grandfather was a London Taxi driver during the forties and fifties. I tried to find more information on his driver number and vehicles he used. It seems the records from that era have all been destroyed. This is an interesting insight though.
WOW all the inspections process to become a cab driver. When people gave a shit.
the Factory in coventry in being demolished now [Feb 2021] another said day for engineering but we must move on ......
How sad I hope they put up a plaque or something to mark the site.
At 27:25, that bloke has had both sides of his face sliced open. Possibly by Ronnie or Reggie Kray.
Monty Schiman was a WW2 veteran. He was badly wounded, including facial injuries, in the North Africa Campaign. He did have his face” sliced open” as you put it , but the injury was sustained fighting for our country.
I loved driving cabs...damn U uber
They were built to last as you see from the video no rules of driving it was chaos
When the world was normal 👌
And now weve got uber and the other shysters, bring back the old dudes brains in newer cars, where i live you cant get a white taxi driver, and they have the no knowledge test as they always ask me for directions
I had a fleet of London Cabs, both Carbodies and Metrocabs. Recognised a few faces in the film, I also spent many happy hours at Penton St. They were comercial vehicles, designed to do a million miles and quick and easy to fix. All the drivers had to know where they were going, no sat-navs or mobile phones. Ken Livingstone put the cab trade into decline when he took control from the Metropolitian Police, and the likes of Uber are now sounding the death knell. An icon which is going to soon dissapear.