Better quality of taxi plate owner back then also.
Any scumbag can own a plate now.
Jaysus...that's debateable Jack.
Banks didn’t give out 80k and more to anyone to buy a plate.
Most blokes had to re mortgage their homes to get finance.
Good solid workers that had to graft hard to pay back the loan.
That's at the end of the gravy train. I remember them being IR£10,000 plus IR£3,000 to the Corpo in the 1980's.
They were about £1 or thereabouts in the late 60s early 70s.
Clever feckers like Terry Rogers and various solicitors bought them and rented them out. Back when there was little oversight and the driver could sign on AND drive a cab.