Advertising Last completed movie pages 1955 Austin FX3 Provincial TaxiClass: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2006-12-20 01:53 |
1945-48 but not Sheerline or Snipe/Hawk |
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◊ 2007-08-18 22:07 |
Austin FX3, taxi or hire car - if it has a nearside front door it's a hire car. |
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◊ 2007-09-12 17:06 |
It has a LCC/local authority taxi plate above the registration plate |
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◊ 2007-09-12 17:19 |
True for you, but outside London and other big cities (this isn't an LCC taxi plate) the local authority would probably grant a hackney licence to a hire car version (btw I've learned since my last post that they were called FL1). I'm not sure we'd be able to see from this angle whether it has a roof sign and we certainly can't see whether it has a nearside front door ... but in the absence of these distinguishing signs I'm happy to leave it as a FX3. |
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◊ 2012-08-07 03:40 |
SKD was a March 55 Liverpool plate. So FL1 as ^?? |
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◊ 2021-06-21 11:17 |
![[Image: shadowlands.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/shadowlands.jpg) Movie shows (providing it is the same vehicle) the interior of a FL1 hire car body with four doors and no nearside taximeter fitted. In a provincial taxi I guess the meter could be mounted centrally in the vehicle. -- Last edit: 2021-06-21 11:18:37 |
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◊ 2021-11-29 13:54 |
Another here with four door body first registered in Manchester. also one in Oxford here. From the body, taxi/Hackney Carriage sign it suggests its a Provincial taxi sold by Austin and not the 'London Taxi' sourced only through Mann & Overton Ltd. who partly financed the tooling.[ -- Last edit: 2021-11-29 13:56:24 |
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