Call Sign January 2003 - Page 11 - Brian Rice On Radio Again and Sid Nathan

BRIAN RICE ON RADIO AGAIN
Brian Rice At Radio Station
Another bout of radio interveiws for Brian Rice and another opportunity to mention Dial-a-Cab.

Slowly but surely, the radio-listening public in the south of England must be getting used to the dulcet tones of Dial-a-Cab Chairman Brian Rice, because when it comes to speaking on subjects involving the taxi trade or just driving, he's the man that the radio companies come to see - even though he keeps plugging a radio taxi organisation called Dial-a-Cab...!
Call Sign has run several articles in recent months that involve Brian's comments on various radio discussions, many of which were carried live.
This month he was asked to speak on various radio stations including Capital, IRN, Radio Verulem (Herts), SGR Colchester, Thames Radio (Surrey), 3TR FM (Wiltshire), Sunrise Radio, 107.5 Soul (Essex), Delta FM (Surrey), LBC, XFM 104.9, Liberty Radio and several others on the subject of seat belts.
"To be honest," Brian told Call Sign, "I decided to refresh my knowledge on the subject before doing the interviews and I have to say that I am delighted that I did. The questions were wide and varied and considering we were talking on a subject that you would have thought couldn't take long to discuss, it was surprising how many different questions were fired at me. I like to think that I answered the questions well, but one thing is certain, there are a lot more people out there in Radioland who now know the name of Dial-a-Cab!"

SID NATHAN UNVEILS PLAQUE TO DAC CHAIRMEN

Sid Nathan unveils the plaque following his own suggestions to Call Sign

In the October Call Sign, DaC driver Sid Nathan (K88) in a tribute to the founder of ODRTS, Bonnie Martyn, wrote in his own inimitable style the following published letter:
"As Bonnie Martyn was the founder of not only Dial-a-Cab (or Lords as it was called), but also the first Chairman of any radio circuit, may I suggest that you create a frame of all the past and present Chairmen of Dial-a-Cab in which we can have a display of their photographs starting from the great Bonnie Martyn in 1953

up to the great Brian Rice in 2002 and hang it in one of the
reception areas? If the frame becomes full up, then you or whoever takes over from you, should get an even bigger frame! In 100 years time, our descendents will be able to look at the frame and say that was my grandfather or great grandfather!"
Unfortunately not all the photos were available in a suitable form and the idea wasn't really practical, but Call Sign put together a list of chairmen from day one together with the years they served and have framed and hung it in the Driver's Reception. We asked Sid to unveil it and he proudly did so...