Inspirational Material: Russian Taxi Company Radio Ops Graham Donald (09 Oct 2023 12:06 UTC)
Re: [EXT][TML] Inspirational Material: Russian Taxi Company Radio Ops Johnson, Bruce E - (bjohnson) (09 Oct 2023 22:02 UTC)
Re: [EXT][TML] Inspirational Material: Russian Taxi Company Radio Ops Ingo Siekmann (10 Oct 2023 17:14 UTC)

Re: [EXT][TML] Inspirational Material: Russian Taxi Company Radio Ops Ingo Siekmann 10 Oct 2023 17:14 UTC

Hallo,

he, I used that one already for Shadowrun. :-)

Bye
Ingo

Am 10.10.23 um 17:37 schrieb David Shaw - tihnessa at gmail.com (via tml
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> And the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars - no, really (spoiler alert: they weren't
> really about ice cream)
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars>
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 23:03 Johnson, Bruce E - (bjohnson) - Johnson at
> pharmacy.arizona.edu <http://pharmacy.arizona.edu> (via tml list),
> <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote:
>
>     The Taxi Wars in 1920’s Chicago
>     https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/1920taxiwars/#:~:text=Yellow%20Cab%20Company%20vs%20Checker%20Cab%20Company&text=Competition%20between%20the%20Yellow%20Cab,and%20revitalized%20in%20mid%2D1921. <https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/1920taxiwars/#:~:text=Yellow%20Cab%20Company%20vs%20Checker%20Cab%20Company&text=Competition%20between%20the%20Yellow%20Cab,and%20revitalized%20in%20mid%2D1921.>
>
>
>
>>     On Oct 9, 2023, at 5:06 AM, Graham Donald - gndonald2001 at
>>     yahoo.com.au <http://yahoo.com.au> (via tml list)
>>     <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote:
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>>     This is another YouTube video that could be used for in game
>>     inspiration. It briefly covers the radio operations of Russian
>>     taxi companies, which apparently interfered quite a bit with
>>     frequency bands outside of Russia.
>>
>>     The bit about drivers having two radios, one tuned to their own
>>     companies frequency and another tuned to a rival companies
>>     frequency suggests one plot line. The other idea that popped into
>>     my head while watching this was the one used in the early Dick
>>     Francis novel 'Dead Cert' (It's been a while since I read it, if
>>     I've got the title wrong please feel free to correct me.) namely a
>>     taxi company being used as the front for a protection racket.
>>
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrlefH-9TXA
>>     <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrlefH-9TXA>
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