A correspondent writes: - Those who are cursed with the "taxi habit" will be interested in an experiment which is being tried at present by an enterprising firm of taxi-cab proprietors in Paris. They have distributed among their drivers books of specially printed cheques. Passengers who take these cheque books, which are priced at varying sums, can then write a cheque instead of paying cash to the driver. This obviates all difficulties over the perennial problem of change. In order to make the scheme more attractive they announce that, if the cheque books are returned when all the cheques have been used, a substantial rebate will be paid.
The Irish Times, April 13th, 1931.