How it looked around the world
Last month Call Sign exclusively told the story about a consortium
of cab drivers - many of them on DaC - who had formed a financial club
(FISCAL) investing on the Stock Market and who were featured on Sky TV's
'Simply Money' channel.
This month we were there to watch the group's Chairman - John
Dixon (B67) - being interviewed live on Bloomberg TV, the financial
information service that is broadcast around the clock and also around the
world.
Arriving at Bloomberg's Finsbury Square HQ, John was whisked into
'make-up' before going live. The interview lasted about 5 minutes and
covered the groups' history, long-term holdings, achievements to date and
sources of information.
John spoke confidently without any sign of nerves, but in true fund
manager tradition was careful not to give away too many secrets!
"Well," said John, "this was live TV
DAC Financial
Whiz Kids on
TV Again...!
Photography: Alan Green
beaming out across the
world and you never know who's listening!" he confided to Call Sign
with a twinkle in his eye. After the initial live broadcast, the program
was repeated at intervals throughout 24 hrs. John has also been invited
back at a future date to be arranged, so watch this space.
Following last month's story, several drivers have asked Call Sign about
joining the FISCAL Club. However, regulations permit only 20 members and
that's how many they have...
(c) Call Sign Mag MM1
Always keep a good set of jump cables in the boot, there is no point buying cheap ones because they won't conduct enough power. Most jump-start cables come in red and black, but contrary to popular belief, it doesn't matter which colour you use so long as that colour connects like to like. 1. Park the vehicles close enough so that the batteries can be linked.
2. Connect one end of a cable to the good battery's positive (+)
terminal and the other end to the poor battery's positive (+) terminal.
3. Connect the remaining cable to the good battery's negative (-) terminal
and the remaining end to the poor battery's negative (-) terminal.
4. Start the "good" cab and gently rev the engine to
increase
5. Start the cab with the flat battery and keep fingers crossed that that's all it was!
6. Once started, disconnect the leads attached to both negative (-) terminals first followed by both positive (+) terminal leads.
Do not allow any cable ends to touch any other part of
the cab other than the battery terminals once the connection has begun.
Please do not smoke or light a match. The fumes from the
battery are flammable and could explode.
