On 22/02/2021 11:31, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , charles
writes
In article ,
Â* JNugent wrote:
On 21/02/2021 04:50 pm, tim... wrote:


"JohnP" wrote in message
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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.

presumably the logic behind it is that many people would be travelling
with a trunk

which wouldn't otherwise fit anywhere else in the cab

With the boot being hinged at the bottom (and strongly reinforced and
fitted with very robust cable stays), it was possible to carry luggage
in the boot (with the lid open).

That's how we went of holiday in my mother's 1936 Wolseley in the 1940s.

My father had an old Wolseley 18 in the '50's. Ran a big end trying to
overtake something on the A1:-)



Porlock Hill used to be the death of many cars back in the
1950's