Taxi!

    Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

No Wrong Number

Mr James thas a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Punhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr Scott cannot get a thelephone for his new garage, so ha has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr Scott has sent a great many request for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own privat 'telephone' service.

Comprehension Precis and Composition
Answer these question in not more than 50 words.

1. Where has Mr Scott opened his second garage?
2. Where is his first garage?
3. How far away is Silbury?
4. Can Mr Scott get a telephone for his new garage or not?
5. What has he bought?
6. In how many minutes do they carry messages from one garage to other?