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JohnP wrote:
Don't know why it came into my head - but I recall at one time London Taxis
had an open luggage space on the nearside front.
Was this in response to a ruling - or what is a whim of a maker?

All sorts of odd regs. For example, the driver's door couldn't be locked.
Perhaps to discourage street parking?

I'd wondered if it was to discourage it being used as a private car when
off duty?

But it does provide luggage space on a smaller vehicle than one with a
boot, if you don't allow a passenger alongside the driver. So the servant
went by bus. ;-)

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