🟧 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐁

Fantastic video from Stephen Fry, who for a Channel Four show Gadget Man, turned one of his old cabs into an amphibious Taxi. 

Click on the square box in the video, bottom right corner to see video 

Stephen was well known for his Green Taxi which was often seen parked on the feeder rank at John Lewis… but because of his popularity, attracted very few complaints from London’s finest. 

Very entertaining watch. 

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓: 

I recently had to part with my TX4, as it had reached the end of its life as a London Taxi (thanks to Sadiq Khans attack on the trade).

I’m now regretting selling it on. 

I would love to have turned it into an Amphicab.

𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐢:

Kate Moss who was given one by her friends as a birthday present and she can often be seen driving round London. 

Many years ago, Liberace had an old FX3 London Taxi shipped to the states and used it to pick up his friends from the airport. As a joke he used to put the meter on. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger bought a London Taxi and paid to have it shipped to his home in California in 2003. 

The iconic filmmaker Stanley Kubrick took to driving around in an iconic London cab in his latter years, proudly displaying his taxi at his Hertfordshire home for all to see.

Sid James starred in Carry On Cabby, so it was no surprise he was a self-proclaimed taxi enthusiast. 

Happy Mondays' Bez used the money from his Big Brother appearance to buy a black cab to "pimp" up.

Sir Laurence Olivier also took to driving in a black London taxi, too.

Yvette Fielding - presenter of Most Haunted - also has her own black cab for personal use. 

Most famous of all, the Duke of Edinburgh bought his own private green Metrocab. It was rumoured that he would put on a cloth cap, creep out of the Palace and drive down to the Kings Road for a quick Kebab.