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Call Sign February 2012
Gordon Bennett (Y91) has been with Dial-a-
Tate not-so Modern???
Cab since 1994, but waited until the July 2005
issue before making his Call Sign début when
he asked all drivers on the circuit to look out
for dodgy minicabs with what appeared to be
fake licenses. And his interest in the `little peo-
ple' seems not to have waned too much since
then! In 2010 he forwarded onto this mag
details of some rather insalubrious minicab
goings-on in Kent as described by his local
newspaper. It had looked at several car compa-
nies whose work practices all looked decided-
ly dubious!
This time, Gordon has come across his own
problem when trying to put onto the Tate
Modern rank.
It was few weeks before Christmas at around
10am and the rank was full but with Addison
Lee cars rather than taxis. Gordon has been
around long enough to know that the
Gordon took this pic through his windscreen showing the rank full of AL cars
Hampstead Road minicab company hadn't sud-
Marshal wasn't interested.
who "did not want to walk too far!"
denly been given special plying for hire rights,
Gordon told Call Sign that there were only a
Call Sign asked Addison Lee for a comment
so he pulled to the offside of the rank and
few taxis there and being so outnumbered,
but they declined. Gordon ended with a rather
walked across to see the AL Marshal in his
they swallowed it and looked for work else-
telling question: "Will this be the look of the
green jerkin and pointed out that this was
future???"
where adding that it wouldn't have been that
marked out as a taxi rank because that's what it
difficult for the AL cars to stop on the offside of
was a rank for taxis.
Jamie Corum
The Marshal's astonishing response was
the rank and then everyone would have been
Call Sign Online
that they were there to pick up VIP passengers
able to continue working normally. But the
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