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It's on the Meter – World Taxi Challenge was a round-the-world motoring expedition that broke the Guinness World Records for the longest ever journey by taxi and the highest altitude ever reached by taxi. The expedition's three-man team used a 1992 Fairway Driver London Black Cab to drive 43,319.5 miles (69,716.12 km) around the world.
This latter company employed up to 9,000 people at one time and was a major manufacturer of precision equipment during World War I. [2] It was subsequently renamed the Ohmer Corporation and in 1949, acquired by Rockwell Manufacturing Company. [3]
The modern taximeter was invented by German Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn in 1891, [3] and the Daimler Victoria—the world's first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897. [4] Taximeters were originally mechanical and mounted outside the cab, above the driver's side front wheel.
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The sale was prompted by the violence associated with the business that culminated in 1928 in his racing stables being destroyed in a $200,000 fire in which 11 thoroughbred horses died. [3] From 1930 till 1982 Yellow Cab of Chicago sourced all of their taxicab fleet from Markin's Checker Motors Corp. of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Holding a near ...
KSFO (560 AM) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a conservative talk radio format branded "810 KSFO", temporarily simulcasting KGO (810 AM). KSFO's studios are located on Battery Street in San Francisco, while the transmitter resides near the Islais Creek Channel.
A Southern California business owner convinced victims to invest in his companies, claiming he could detect Covid-19 based on video, and then made lavish purchases, prosecutors said.
Electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation will invest up to $500 million to build a new facility in Dayton, Ohio, where it will mass produce air taxis, it said on Monday. The 140-acre site at Dayton ...