It turns out that once a car has been licensed as a Private Hire vehicle
(i.e. minicab) by the Public Carriage Office, and has had stickers applied
to the windscreens denoting this, it can then be legally sold complete with
stickers to anyone, including convicted rapists and child molestors!

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes