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Call Sign
has now made its sixth Listening Group trip to the LTI
facility in Coventry and it probably ranked as its best yet. LTI Government Affairs, Richard Daniels and their Market Development Manager, Paul Kelsey, greeted editor Alan Fisher and the eight Dial-a-Cab drivers, plus one guest, at Coventry Station at 10am. The eight DaC drivers were Neville Chapman, Dave Creber, Alan Lipscombe, Paul Gane, Janet Fox, John Dixon, Kamel Abdellaoui, Fred Cooper with the Call Sign invited guest being John Paul Pace from TaxiCab News. Arriving at the factory, we were delighted to see that Manganese Bronze CEO, John Russell, had kept his word to the Editor that he would attend to answer any questions. Also there to answer driver’s questions were LTI Engineering Projects Director Paul Woolley, Sales Director based at M&O, Rob Laidler and LTI’s Customer and Technical Support Manager and the man who always turns up to answer drivers questions and any moans about their taxis, Trevor Hattersley. There followed around two hours of questions and answers interspersed with coffee and biscuits. The questions covered topics from bulbs to the problems tall drivers had to the heater noise when on boost and questions on whether, following a spate of rumours, there would be a new engine (the answer was no)! Questions comparing the TX4 to the Vito weren’t in short supply either! No question was refused and promises to look at the many suggestions were made. Then it was lunch and off on a tour of the factory – beginning with a view of a sheet of metal being pressed and ending with a completed taxi! En route, the group’s timing |
Call Sign’s most successful LTI trip yet! |
 John Russell takes a two hour Q/A Session  DaC Drivers on tour  A TX4 body drops onto the chassis |
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was perfect as we saw a body
lifted onto a chassis – not something that all Call Sign’s
visiting groups have been lucky enough to see. Then it was the 4pm train at Coventry to get us all back to Euston just before 5pm. Everyone agreed that it had been a very worthwhile day, some believing that LTI had turned the corner with others not so sure. But everyone was impressed by how well we had been treated. The next Call Sign trip will be in the spring… |
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