Cab Collection

The Main Entrance - The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Date: 1913

Altrincham Railway Station - Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Date: 1903

Elephant & Castle
The Elephant & Castle public house, seen from Walworth Road with a horse bus, a hansom cab, a horse-drawn wagon and a dog cart as well as various pedestrians

The pier at Entebbe, Uganda - Lake Victoria
The pier at Entebbe, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria with the steam ferryboats Clement Hill (on left) which was in service between 1906-36 and either the Winifred or Sybil (on the right)

The Horse Cartoon, 1931
Cartoon, by H.M. Bateman, showing a large chauffeur driven car crashing into the rear of a horse-drawn hansom cab or cart

Sher. Holmes & Watson
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes & Watson catch a glimpse of the mysterious stranger in a hansom cab in Regent Street

Fireless Locomotives - Llandarcy, Wales. Oil storage depots and oil handling docks used fireless locomotives (steam was pumped in to a specially constructed usually dome-ended boiler)

The Micheline - a train on pneumatic tyres
The Micheline - the first train on pneumatic tyres. In commercial use since 1931 - the birth of the Michelin Tyre. This example was run on the L.M.S. Line (Bletchley to Oxford) in 1932

Washington Dc / Penn. Ave
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC

The Harbour, Rozel Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

Brompton Oratory, London. Date: circa 1905

Caricature of John Corlett of The Sporting Times
Caricature of John Corlett (1841-1915), founder, proprietor and editor of The Sporting Times. Real Jam! He is annoyed that the cabman charges eighteen pence to drive someone one mile and 1700 yards

Fleet Street, London
A lovely view up Fleet Street, toward Ludgate Hill and St Pauls Cathedral

CV Stanford - Downey cab
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924) Irish musician

Slow Coach and infuriated passenger
A lovely postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Urgent - featuring a carriage being pulled by a very tired old nag and being driven by an old soak of a driver

Hailing taxis / W H Robinson -test edit
The fitting of the new Heath Robinson taxi hailer dissolves all difficulties of inadequate whistles (due in some cases to dental work)

Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London
A hansom cab trots past Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, the town residence of Lord Palmerston

Police Ambulance - London
A fantastic photograph (hand-coloured) of a Police Ambulance in London, with open cab and a large alarm bell fixed at the front

Joe Elvin as a Cabby
The Cockney Comedian Joe Elvin in the role of The Hansom Cabby, singing a ditty entitled My Lot. " Strange things I view when I peep through the little trapdoor!"

Stationary traffic along a busy Piccadilly at night, showing a London taxi cab for hire, and the illuminated signs of Piccadilly Circus in the background in London

Lambeth Floods 1850
The Thames overflows at Lambeth, London - a hansom cab makes its way through the streets but many take to boats. Date: 1850

Railway Lines
The view from the drivers cab of a mainline electric train leaving Surbiton Station, Surrey, England, showing the the track and bridge ahead

Sadar Bazar, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India - May, 1922. Date: 1922

Man in pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore
A man wearing a cloth cap sits in a pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. Horse transport is often used as taxis on the islands Date: 1991

The Army & Navy Stores, Victoria Street, London The Army & Navy Stores
The Army & Navy Stores, Victoria Street, London Date: circa 1903

Female French Horse Cab Driver - Madame Decourcelle - Paris
Female French Horse Cab Driver - Madame Decourcelle and her best friend - Paris. Lady cab drivers were seen by paying customers as a far safer bet than their male counterparts

The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Note the elegant gilt Art Nouveau surround border and the horse cab front and centre. Date: 1903

Great Central Railway - Marylebone Station. The newspaper headlines on the left give a perfect date for this photograph of May 1906 as they detail the British victory in the Bambatha (Bambaata)

Hansom cab, London, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Hansom cab, Battle of Bazentin Ridge, Bazentin-le-Grand, France

Hansom Cab at the Battle of Bazentin Ridge France WW1

London Fleet Street Victorian period

Steam engine cab, early 1900s

Steam engine cab

A steam engine cab, Victorian period

Traffic congestion on a London street

Bobby and Co Department Store

Growler Cab in London

A London Growler Cab Victorian period

London Hansom Cab Driver Victorian period

Hansom Cab driver, London

Hansom Cab, London

London Hansom Cab Victorian period

Great North of Scotland Railway driver and fireman

Burnley in 1880

Burnley Centre in 1880

Burnley Carriage Company Victorian period

Horse cab, Burnley Carriage Company

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