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    A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or taxi) is a carriage or car for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class...
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    licences, 62,000 were taxi licences and 72,000 were dual licences. Hackney carriages (taxis) can be flagged down on the street or hired from a taxi rank...
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  • Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers is one of the 111 livery companies of the City of London. Its members are professional hackney carriage drivers, including...
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    France in the eighteenth century and quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London. The word cabriolet...
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    be identified by slightly differing terms in different countries: Hackney carriages, also known as public hire, hailed or street taxis, licensed for hailing...
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    The LTI TXII is a hackney carriage (London hail taxi) manufactured by LTI. It is the second model following the modernisation and redesign of the London...
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    A fiacre is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. In Vienna such cabs are called Fiaker. The earliest use of the word...
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    The LEVC TX (previously known as the TX5) is a purpose-built hackney carriage manufactured by the British commercial vehicle maker London EV Company (LEVC)...
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    The TX4 is a purpose-built taxicab (hackney carriage) manufactured by The London Taxi Company, a subsidiary of Geely Automobile of China. From 2007 until...
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    The LTI TX1 is a Hackney carriage (London "Black cab") introduced by London Taxis International in 1997 and designed to replace the ageing Austin FX4....
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    documented "hackney coach"—the forerunner of the more generic "hackney carriage"—operated in London in 1621. Current opinion is that the name "hackney", to refer...
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    The Austin FX4 is a hackney carriage that was produced from 1958 until 1997. It was sold by Austin from 1958 until 1982, when Carbodies, who had been producing...
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  • Adelaide, Australia Hackney (automobile) Hackney (surname) Hackney horse, a breed of horse Hackney pony, a pony breed Hackney carriage, taxicabs in London...
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    of the rise of the more comfortable, companionable and affordable hackney carriage. In Glasgow, the decline of the sedan chair is illustrated by licensing...
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    A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a...
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    A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of...
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    Growler: the four-wheeled version of a hansom cab Horsebus Hackney carriage: A carriage for hire, especially in London. Hansom cab: a one-horsed, two-wheeled...
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    Hansom cab (category Carriages)
    shortening of cabriolet, reflecting the design of the carriage. It replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire; with the introduction of clockwork...
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    March 1873 – via Google Books. Toms, David (23 October 2018). "The Hackney Carriage in Cork: Vehicle of a Victorian Irish City 1854–1902". Irish Economic...
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    post-graduate qualifications in some medical specialities, and the Hackney Carriage Drivers' Company comprises licensed taxi drivers who have passed the...
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    Group Taxicabs of the United Kingdom Hackney carriage Wikimedia Commons has media related to Austin FX3. Public Carriage Office archives Austin FX3 brochure...
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    ideal for carriage driving. They are an elegant high stepping breed of carriage horse that is popular for showing in harness events. Hackneys possess good...
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    A buggy refers to a lightweight four-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse, though occasionally by two. Amish buggies are still regularly in use on...
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    coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion...
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    Brougham.: 24–25  In time, second-hand clarences came to be used as hackney carriages, earning the nickname growler from the sound they made on London's...
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    okadas, boda bodas, sedan services, limousines, party buses, carriages (including hackney carriages, fiacres, and caleches), pet taxis, water taxis, and air...
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    The Hackney pony is a breed of pony closely related to the Hackney horse. Originally bred to pull carriages, they are used today primarily as show ponies...
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    produced the runabouts in his carriage manufactory on East 31st Street, Manhattan, established in 1851. According to The Carriage Journal, The special feature...
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    The Hackney Carriages, Metropolis Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 79) regulated and set up a licensing system for hackney carriages in London, namely the Office...
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    four-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse. It was named after the politician and jurist Lord Brougham, who had this type of carriage built to his...
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