• George Elsmore

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:21 am

    I think its great :lol1:

  • Chris Key

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:29 am

    Spanking good fun you say? Excellent

  • John Harding

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:44 am

    ohh I’d better get down to Gillespies. its been a while 😀

  • Steve McAdie

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Can you PM panthers number please Cheryl?

    Steve

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:54 am

    I didnt realise you had a second job Cheryl

    😀 😀

    Peter

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 9:59 am

    You know… i spoke to the lady on the phone….she works in an office where noone else knows what she does …. It was genuine, but you know…the council were never going to allow it… and no…it was not me Peter.!

  • Steve Smith

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 10:07 am

    No pleasing some people, I bet most of the council would be future customers.

    The Hackney Carriage compliance test can be quite severe when it comes to a vehicle having 2 broken door handles on the driver side and the mirror looks a bit iffy as well 😀

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    First wrap I was asked to do on a taxi was for a sex shop which was opening in Edinburgh. I didn’t do the artwork it was done by some designer but the job never went ahead, after changing the text and graphics 4 times trying to get it past the Council the owners gave up :lol1:

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 1:01 pm
    quote Martin:

    First wrap I was asked to do on a taxi was for a sex shop which was opening in Edinburgh. I didn’t do the artwork it was done by some designer but the job never went ahead, after changing the text and graphics 4 times trying to get it past the Council the owners gave up :lol1:

    Research, research, site visits and product sampling, Martin? Don’t you just hate this job sometimes eh? 😀 😀

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    07 ?
    just called her, no answer… you sure that’s the number?
    got a mates birthday coming up, honest!
    😉

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Let me get this straight, all of your vehicle lettering over there has to be approved by the town council?
    That’s incredible!
    Not one sign in Vegas would pass approval if we had that.
    It had to be the image cuz I can’t read the name.
    😀
    Try it again without the hot chick.
    Love….Jill

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    no Jill not all of it just licensed taxis usually

    Lynn

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    oh blimy Jill…ones councils are quite particular about what drives around on our taxis……
    I must confess…I did think twice about doing this job in the first place..I didnt recon it would happen…but it only took a few secs to wizz up..
    Rob…I deliberately took the number off of it before I posted….I had a feeling it would attract attention from some sorts 🙄

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 6:04 pm
    quote Cheryl Smith:

    feeling it would attract attention from some sorts 🙄

    good idea cheryl… you never know the riff-raff around that might call the poor girl… 😳 :lol1:

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    November 9, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    Rob from the looks of your typing I think someone has just chapped your @ss but good!
    😀
    Hey thanks for clarifying, ladies, we don’t have too many taxis in these parts.
    Only the one, and that guy did all his own lettering.
    Oh it was just awful.

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    November 14, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Our signs have to be approved by the taxi council here. Its pretty much a closed shop for signage, unless you know someone and have a ‘contact’, chances of getting the work is near impossible.

    Years ago I did all the taxi signage on the east coast of Australia, but the media company that had the contract got taken over and I lost the contract to their bloke.

    I had a woman ring me a while ago and ask if I could put ‘captions’ on several posters she had.

    I said, what sort of captions….. she said nothing outrageous, just names and stuff. I said sure, bring them down and I’ll get them done.

    When she arrived, they were full frontal nudes for the local brothel, she wanted names above the heads so clients could choose a girl without seeing them.

    I gotta say, most of the girls were pretty average in the face stakes, I covered the rest of the picture with material so it was not exposed to the staff or clients.

    I was a bit annoyed actually, because my kids would often hang around the office after school, and I didn’t want them to be exposed to that sort of thing. I did the job myself as I didn’t want my staff at the time to feel they may have had to compromise themselves.

    I suggested to the lady that she might want to just tell me the names in future and I’d post them to her so she could stick them on herself.

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    November 14, 2010 at 2:57 pm
    quote Shane Drew:

    I did the job myself as I didn’t want my staff at the time to feel they may have had to compromise themselves.

    Very Noble of you Shane – I would have done the same myself 😛

  • David Rowland

    Member
    November 14, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    W:oW, Cheryl stop tellin lies it really is ur second business … what you doing next tuesday?

  • Nigel Pugh

    Member
    November 14, 2010 at 7:19 pm
    quote Dave Rowland:

    W:oW, Cheryl stop tellin lies it really is ur second business … what you doing next tuesday?

    Bloody hell Dave, one minute you are going on about Jill’s back door and now you are hitting on a newly married woman………..I like your game 😀

  • David Rowland

    Member
    November 14, 2010 at 10:08 pm
    quote Nigel Pugh – Grafityp:

    quote Dave Rowland:

    W:oW, Cheryl stop tellin lies it really is ur second business … what you doing next tuesday?

    Bloody hell Dave, one minute you are going on about Jill’s back door and now you are hitting on a newly married woman………..I like your game 😀

    Shh, dont let Nancy read this

  • Tim Painter

    Member
    November 17, 2010 at 12:59 pm

    Always makes me laugh that the VAT man has his cut from knocking shop adverts in news papers etc.

    One rule for one…. 🙄

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