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An Azerbaijani company that had imported a few London taxis to rent out for birthdays and weddings also came.
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London taxis are designed to be commodious to an English gentleman's top hat in the back seat and a trans-Atlantic steamship chest in the trunk.
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The zero emission taxis have been developed by a consortium, led by Intelligent Energy, which includes Lotus Engineering, London Taxis International and TRW Conekt with part-funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board.
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Yet, jump in a black cab -- London's iconic taxis -- anywhere in the city, and the driver will get you to where you want to go via the shortest possible route.
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In London, meanwhile, electric taxis are expected to be trialled in 2013.
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Meantime, we have a car that looks like a London taxi if Aston Martin built taxis, and that's not a bad thing.
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Rome has less than a third fewer taxis per resident than London or Paris, because the Italian taxi guild lobbies and strikes to keep taxi licenses to a minimum and competition non-existent.
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The project to deliver a fleet of the zero emission taxis to the streets of London in time for 2012 is on track, with the first Fuel Cell Black Cabs covering a combined total of over 8, 000 miles in road and test track testing conditions.
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Only buses, licensed black taxis and motorcycles - making up about 7% of London-bound traffic - had been allowed to use the bus lane.
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Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.
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