Some Amazing Facts
- To
date 1500 taxis have taken almost 3,000 children to Disneyland.
- 15,000
packed lunches have been supplied to children, drivers and helpers.
- Nearly
24.400 gallons of diesel have been used on the trip.
- The
Metropolitan Police, London
Ambulance NHS Trust, the AA and the RAC have provided 121 support
vehicles.
- If on
cab had taken everyone on all the trips it would have traveled well
over one third of a million miles.
- Some
of the drivers have been coming every year since 1994, that's 9,000
unpaid miles of driving.
- When
traveling at speed last year's convoy, at times. Was over three
miles long.
- 50
taxis undertook the first trip in 1994 with 100 children. In the
Millennium year it was 125 taxis with 250 children.
- The
convoy has got through every year despite encountering a channel
tunnel fire, a blockade of Calais
by fisherman, a blockade by lorry drivers and a fuel
crisis.
10. Every aspect of the trip is organized
by unpaid volunteers.
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The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage
Drivers
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