Letters: Powered by British Gas

From Mr F. J. Kean

Sir: I saw a diesel London black cab last week advertising itself as powered by Natural Gas. It occurred to me that if a hard-nosed London cab driver can be persuaded to convert his taxi, British Gas could do worse than to consider combining parts of its transport and advertising budgets and invest in a similar conversion programme for its vehicle fleet. An initiative such as this might just allow it to claim some environmental bonus points and gain some good publicity into the bargain.

And if that works, how about steam- and electrically-powered transport fleets for the water and electricity authorities?

Yours sincerely,

F. J. Kean

London, NW3

15 August