The London Taxi Company

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The London Taxi Company
legal form Limited Company
founding 1899
Seat Coventry , UK
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The LTI Fairway Austin FX3
The LTI Fairway Austin FX4
The LTI TX1
The LTI TXII
The LTI TX4
The LEVC TX5

The London Taxi Company is an English car manufacturer based in Coventry . Built cab models, which are used as "black cabs" mainly in London. The vehicles are sold through the wholly owned subsidiary Mann and Overton , which also handles the service. Until the beginning of 2013, the company was a subsidiary of Manganese Bronze Holdings . In October 2012, Manganese Bronze Holdings opened for insolvency . In the meantime, London Taxi has been taken over by the Chinese Geely Group and incorporated into the newly founded London Electric Vehicle Company . Since then, Black Cab has been striving for global expansion. So far there are specific plans for Oslo, Berlin and Paris (as of October 2018).

history

LTI Fairway, Austin FX4 and FX3

The company began producing the LTI fairway in 1989 . Revised versions appeared in 1992 (Fairway Driver), 1993 (Fairway Driver-Plus) and 1994 (Fairway 95). The model was previously manufactured by Carbodies as the FX4 . Its predecessor, the FX3, was first developed in 1948 as a joint project by Austin and Carbodies Ltd.

TX1

The fairway was replaced by the TX1 in 1997. The 2.7 liter diesel engine from Nissan was used , which had been used in the previous model FX4 since 1989. The LTI models have been wheelchair accessible since the TX1. For this purpose, there is a ramp in the trunk in front of the spare wheel.

TXII

The TXII followed in 2002. The TXII is powered by a 2.4 liter diesel engine, the Ford Duratorq engine.

TX4

The TX4 is powered by a 2.5-liter R-425-DOHC diesel engine from the Italian manufacturer VM Motori , which complies with the Euro V emission standard, later a VM Motori 2.8-liter diesel engine with Euro VI.

TX5

The TX5 from the end of 2017 / beginning of 2018 has a plug-in hybrid drive train that Geely adapts from the Volvo T6 twin engine (electric motor 110 kW on a battery of 31 kWh plus 1.5 R3 petrol engine 82 PS as a range extender with 36 liters of petrol in the tank) and a lightweight architecture made of aluminum. The electric range is 80 miles / 128 km. London Taxi Company opened a new plant in Ansty (Warwickshire) in 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ head-office london-taxis.co.uk
  2. ↑ London “Black Cabs” is threatened with extinction. , handelsblatt.de of October 23, 2012, accessed on the same day
  3. ↑ Black Cabs - Electric London taxis are supposed to run in Paris . spiegel.de. October 18, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ LEVC | New Taxis | Light Commercial Electric Vehicles | Approved Used Taxis. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Explore our new taxis | Euro 6 taxis
  6. ↑ LTC TX5 Price and Specification Issue 2 Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ BBC, March 22, 2017

See also

Web links

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