Acton Taxis
In 1911 Birmingham entrepreneur David Wright decided to commence up the first taxi business inside the United Kingdom that used New Malden transport. This seemed the logical factor to do as the budding motor industry within the country was based in and around the West Midlands. And motorised taxis in Birmingham seemed the most obvious solution to the growing need for cost-effective and reliable public transport in the area. For those of you who are reading this from outside of Britain, then it is worth mentioning that Birmingham, inside the heart of the West Midlands, is to the United Kingdom what Detroit would be to the United States of America. The motor industry inside the UK was based pretty firmly in Birmingham, so it would have made sense for the initial motorised taxi company to have come from this area. For Wright, discovering the correct engineers and adapting an original design by the Austin motor Company to carry passengers was an easy job.