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Jamie has been  driving a Taxi in London for 12 years, obtaining his license in May 1991 after completing the famous "knowledge of London" where a knowledge boy has the task of learning and committing to memory every street, road, avenue, theatre, cinema, museum, tourist attraction, places of interest, monuments, government buildings, hospitals, police stations, fire stations and so on, within a six mile radius of Charing Cross.

Once completed the above it is required then to learn the suburbs of London and then pass an extended driving test in a London Taxi.

Jamie has gained an enormous amount of knowledge of London, its history and the London Taxi Trade since obtaining his license, undertaking extra courses on the historical side of London to further enhance his knowledge.

In 1999 Jamie registered the internet domain name www.london-taxi.co.uk much to the amusement of many of his fellow Taxi drivers who thought that it was a waste of time, the website started in a very humble way and soon grew into a very popular site for both Taxi drivers, tourists and people with an interest in London and its World famous Taxi's. Many enquiries started to flood in with requests to book a London Taxi on-line which led to the online quotation section of the site being added. The website now attracts over 1 million visitors a year which is probably more than most of the other London Taxi related websites put together. The London-Taxi.co.uk website has now evolved into a fully Limited company under the name of The London Taxi Company.com Ltd of which Jamie is the Managing Director.

Another avenue that was explored due to customer requests was that of supplying London Taxi's for use as Wedding vehicles, hence the birth of Wedding Taxis (www.weddingtaxis.co.uk) which has grown in popularity with prospective brides and grooms hence the purchase of the new White TXII London Taxi. Wedding Taxis is also now a Limited company with Jamie undertaking the role of Managing Director for this company.

Jamie is also the Vice Chairman and Public Relations Officer of The Albany Taxi Charity Fund for children with special needs. www.albany-charity.org.uk

Another position held is that of Chairman of The Taxi Drivers Society, a newly formed driver organisation to look after the welfare of its Taxi driving members aan to promote the Taxi trade within London to the rest of the World.

Jamie is also a member of The Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers and participates in their annual charity event each year taking seriously ill children from hospitals in and around London on The Magical Taxi Tour to Disneyland Paris in a convoy of over 100 taxi's.

Jamie also participates in The Taxi Benevolent Association for The War Disabled annual outing to Worthing for Old Soldiers and The East London Cabbies Outing for Disabled Children's outing to Maldon Essex.