London, Sept. 5: Another British icon has gone the Chinese way. We are talking about taxis.
They are now not being made in Britain, but at a sprawling factory in the lush green suburbs of Shanghai.
Young Chinese workers have been roped in for the full-scale production of one of Britain's most emblematic vehicles.
London Taxi International, which will continue to build nine out ten cabs used in Britain at a factory in Coventry, could not expand at its small-scale, high-cost plant. So it turned to China to drive overseas expansion.