How to be a 1960s London Taxi Driver Part 3 | Chats with my Dad oral history
Channel: Neil Mossey
Date: 2018-09-03

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This is part 3 of my chat with my Dad, about what was it like becoming a London Taxi Driver in the 1960s.  
I'm saying it's an oral history but really it's so my kids and future generations can hear what the job was like.
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0:00 Ian talks about joining the London radio taxi circuit called Lords... the kipper season...
1:15 How you'd get a radio in your taxi from Pye
2:00 Being horrified now that he let me sit in the front on the cab
3:00 The secret panic button
4:00 How radio dispatch worked with jobs phoning in
6:00 All about ODRTS (the Owner Driver Radio Taxi Service), Lords, Dial-A-Cab...
7:50 More about the emergency button
8:55 Catching cabbies who abused the radio

Thanks for watching - the full chat with my taxi driver Dad is here: https://youtu.be/2eDuR1QEp34

The transcript for this video is here: https://neilmossey.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-be-1960s-london-taxi-driver-part_27.html

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I talked with my Nan too about her life in London & Brighton in the 1940s here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZM4-pHDwPmHzdMH6gGcMnS84bIp-FTt

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