redirects here . for the financial co operative see london capital credit union . mountview house group founded 2004 1953 type private company limited by shares location mountview house lennox road london n4 3tx website mvhg.co.uk mountview house group limited is a taxi holding company based in finsbury park in the north london borough of islington comprising radio taxis xeta and one transport . contents 1 history 1.1 legal case 1.2 credit union 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit originally formed in 1953 as radio taxicabs southern limited a licensed hackney carriage owner driver co operative becoming radio taxicabs london limited in 1973 the business demutualised in 2004 as radio taxis group limited . the following year the company acquired xeta a smaller niche private hire circuit and in 2006 7 the one transport platform a nationwide ground transport management system was developed . in 2014 radio taxis group became mountview house group after a historical nickname deriving from the firm s original mountview 3232 telephone number . 1 legal case edit in the case of radio taxicabs london ltd. v owner drivers radio taxi services ltd. 2004 rpc 351 a rival firm trading as dial a cab set up a website at www.dialacab.co.uk with a re direct from www.radiotaxis.com . radio taxicabs owner of the www.radiotaxis.co.uk domain contended that this constituted actionable passing off . the judgement held that although radio taxicabs did have a reputation within the industry as radio taxis it did not have such a reputation amongst members of the general public and that the words were not distinctive of the business . 2 credit union edit radio taxicabs london credit union limited was a savings and loans co operative set up in 1987 to help london taxi drivers and their families access affordable credit and secure savings . 3 4 it was a member of the association of british credit unions limited . in 2013 the directors of radio taxicabs credit union approached london capital credit union with a view to merger . 5 in 2014 after 27 years independent trading members of the credit union unanimously voted in favour of the transfer of engagements 6 and london capital s common bond was extended to include employees of mountview house group . 7 see also edit taxicabs of the united kingdom credit unions in the united kingdom british co operative movement references edit our history mountview house group retrieved 4 november 2014 crown giles et al. passing off advertising law and regulation 2nd ed . p. 83 haywards heath bloomsbury professional 2010 london borrowers look to credit unions as payday alternative co operative news 28 october 2014 credit union mountview house group retrieved 4 november 2014 expanding your credit union london capital credit union newsletter issue 9 winter spring 2013 14 radio taxi cabs credit union merger london capital credit union newsletter issue 11 autumn winter 2014 radio taxis credit union votes to merge with london capital london taxi retrieved 4 november 2014 external links edit mountview house group london capital credit union association of british credit unions v t e credit unions in the united kingdom community alford and district community bank the co operative eastern savings & loans east london cherwell community bank leeds city lincolnshire london capital london community london mutual london plus louth community bank northamptonshire north london plaid cymru rainbow saver anglia thamesbank wandsworth plus white rose yourcu industrial changemaker churches mutual 1st class manchester unity national fire savers nhs ou employees pcs penny post plane saver police rmt scvo tcu money dissolved district of canterbury hornsey co operative north west london radio taxicabs london associations association of british credit unions gb irish league of credit unions ni ulster federation of credit unions ni retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mountview house group & oldid 742139348 categories transport companies based in londoncredit unions of the united kingdomtransport companies established in 1953british companies established in 1953 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 23 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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