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
Graham Donald
(10 Oct 2023 11:47 UTC)
|
Re: [EXT][TML] Inspirational Material: Russian Taxi Company Radio Ops
David Shaw
(10 Oct 2023 15:37 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 list): > 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: >> >> *External Email* >> >> 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> >> >> >> >> ----- >> The Traveller Mailing List >> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >> <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >> <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> >> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >> https://archives.simplelists.com/subs/ <https://archives.simplelists.com/subs/> >> > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> > To unsubscribe from this list please go to > https://www.simplelists.com <https://www.simplelists.com> > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please go to > https://www.simplelists.com/subs/ >