Keep Calm and Cabbie On

going, going, gone                                      Helmut Meyer zur Capellen/Corbis

They've been around in this particular iteration since 1945, but now London's iconic black cabs are being replaced by an updated version from Nissan that is, we hear, greener and more spacious. The company's first stab at the cab was rejected as looking too much like a delivery van (which it pretty much was), so it made a few revisions, and the new cabs will be on the streets by the end of the year (story, slideshow): http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140106-this-is-londons-new-cab
   Herewith, some interesting trivia about London's cabs. For example, they must be tall enough to accommodate someone wearing a bowler hat! Wonder if the new ones have to meet that same requirement: http://bloomsburyinternational.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/british-culture-how-to-hail-a-black-cab-taxi-in-london/