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  1. Radio Phone Taxis Save Time and Temper

    Date released
    16 Oct 1947
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1735
    NoS ID
    040762
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Enterprising Cambridge taxi-cab company contacts drivers by short wave radio. Messages are picked up on army type set in cab and driver can be directed to pick up "fare" who has previously phoned the cab...

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  2. First Woman Tube Driver

    Date released
    15 Oct 1978
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2576
    NoS ID
    031202
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: First Woman Tube Driver. DESCRIPTION: Mrs Ann Dadds takes her place in the record books as she becomes the first woman Train Driver on the London Underground. SHOTLIST: TS Metropolitan...

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  3. Look Back in Safety

    Date released
    25 Aug 1969
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2099
    NoS ID
    027980
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Look Back in Safety. DESCRIPTION: From Australia, a new reversing mirror allows a van driver to see beneath the vehicle to make sure all’s clear behind. SHOTLIST: MS man in van look...

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  4. Minicab Challenge

    Date released
    22 Jun 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1672A
    NoS ID
    024153
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Minicab Challenge. DESCRIPTION: The Minicab is London’s latest idea. The aim is to provide a shilling-a-mile service, with no extras. But you have to phone for a minicab, the control...

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  5. Le Touquet

    Date released
    30 Oct 1950
    Series name
    New Pictorial
    Issue no
    320
    NoS ID
    118996
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    SHOTLIST: London. MS, three girls on pavement hail taxi which pulls up. CU driver holds out hand for passports. CS girls showing driver passports. MS driver gets out of cab and goes round back. CU takes off...

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  6. Underground

    Date released
    26 Feb 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2021
    NoS ID
    027265
    Story no
    1 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Underground. DESCRIPTION: The new Automatic Underground trains for the Victoria Line, about to go on trial. Going Underground in Kilburn, Mike Meaney, a gallant Irishman seeking a new...

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  7. Taxi driver dies after mugging (1994)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Mark Phillips reports on the death of Freddy Franks, London taxi driver, from a heart attack after teenage muggers who hired his cab tried to steal his mobile phone. Franks was due to retire from his job....

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  8. The London interview (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    This edition of The London Interview is with Alf Townsend, Cab Driver of the Year. Topics covered include the cost of taking a cab; tipping; routes and distances; public image; passengers’ eccentricities;...

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  9. Policeman on rape in taxi (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Nick Wood interviews Detective Inspector Ray Needham of Chelsea Police Station about a search in West London for a man who raped a woman in the back of a taxi. On whether it was a licensed taxi driver...

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  10. Old Bill

    Date released
    7 Nov 1960
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    306
    NoS ID
    120971
    Story no
    1 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NoS Summary - A 1910 bus, nicknamed ‘Old Bill’, that became a troop carrier is seen along with other vintage buses and trams at the British Transport Commission in Clapham, London. SHOTLIST: Ancient tram...

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