The Duke of Edinburgh waved off a Norwich Union-insured London black cab last week, as it left Buckingham Palace for a four-month journey around the world to raise money for sight-saving charity, ORBIS.
The Duke of Edinburgh waved off a Norwich Union-insured London black cab last week, as it left Buckingham Palace for a four-month journey around the world to raise money for sight-saving charity, ORBIS.
The "Drive the World" team - Jeremy Levine of First National Motor Finance, Preston, Mark Aylett, an English graduate from Swanley, Kent, and James Burke of Economy Cars in Barnsley - plan to raise Ł10,000 by beating the world record for circumnavigation by car. The current record of 21 days, two hours and 14 minutes was set by a British team in December 1997.
Norwich Union is sponsoring the Metrocab on its European sector (approximately 5,000 miles) and the Middle Eastern sector, through specialist taxi broker Cabsurance Direct.
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A photograph is available by ISDN (filename: taxi.jpeg): "HRH The Prince Philip sends off the "Drive the World" team."
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