11 MAY 1962, Page 16

TAXI!

SIR,—Last week you referred to 'the inefficiency and incivility of the taxi trade.' During the last eighteen months I have made some 400 journeys by taxi at busy times in central London. Sometimes I had to wait for about ten minutes for a taxi and occasion- ally I could not get one at all, but on the great majority of occasions I found one within two min- utes and made my journey of a little over a mile in another five minutes. Only once was a driver slightly uncivil. The others have all been courteous and most of them friendly and good-humoured.

D. A. S. CAIRNS A pplecrof t, The Warren, Ashtead, Surrey