In message , at 17:09:23 on Wed, 15
Mar 2017, Neil Williams remarked:
On 2017-03-15 11:27:11 +0000, Roland Perry said:

A minicab is a private hire vehicle, not a taxi.

In common non-London parlance it is (technically incorrectly) known as one.

In a transport group it's important to differentiate between the two,
and not degenerate into the language of "normals".

--
Roland Perry