Taxi Collection (page 3)

Lilian Harvey and Nils Asther rehearsing for the German film The Girl in the Taxi (1927). In the end Asther did not appear in the film (he left Europe for Hollywood)

Turkish Porter with a heavy load - Istanbul, Turkey
1964

Always the way cartoon by Bert Thomas 1909
Cartoon entitled Always the way by Bert Thomas, showing the weakness of Edwardian London hansom cab drivers and drivers. Date: 1909

Big Ben and Houses of Parliament - Inset portrait of Balfour
Tower of Big Ben and Houses of Parliament - inset portrait of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour and Conservative Prime Minister between 1902-1905. Date: circa 1904

Westminster Abbey - viewed from the end of Whitehall
Westminster Abbey, London - viewed from the end of Whitehall across Parliament Square. Date: circa 1910

Newest Hansom motor-cab 1909
Driving in the streets of Paris the latest motor-cab Hansom, with the driver sitting a aloft at the back. Date: 1909

Hansom Cab, London 1900
Hansoms cabs in a yard in London. Date: 1900

Electric cab 1897
Electric cab with adverts for The Graphic, Daily Graphic and Golden Penny, advertised on the side. Date: 1897

Piccadilly Circus, London 1866
Piccadilly Circus, London on the morning of Derby Day Date: 1866

Royal Air Force BAC Jet Provost T. 4 XR670
Royal Air Force Flying College BAC Jet Provost T.4 XR670 of The Macaws aerobatic team, ready to taxi out. Date: 1970s

A boney white horse pulls an entire family in a cart, India
A boney white horse pulls an entire family in a cart beneath the walls of the Red Fort in Delhi, India Date: 1984

A ragged driver sits on his cycle rickshaw, India
A ragged driver sits on his cycle rickshaw waiting for fare-paying pasengers. He looks up the street and picks his teeth. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Date: 1984

Man drives pony and trap between dry stone walls, Innishmore
A man wearing a cap drives a pony and trap between dry stone walls on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. Horse transport is often used as taxis on the islands Date: 1991

Paris, France - Rue Scribe - Hotel de l Athenee. Date: circa 1905

Avenue Eugenie and Eastern Exchange Hotel, Port Said
The Avenue Eugenie and Eastern Exchange Hotel, Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Westminster Abbey, London - with the Victoria Tower (part of the Houses of Parliament) visible in the background. Date: 1910s

Modern-day Paris - Female Coach Driver
Modern-day Paris - Female Horse carriage Driver. " With us, no danger of getting lost, we always know how to find ourselves in the right places." Lady cab drivers were seen by paying

Railway Station, Tokyo, Japan
The Tokyo Central Railway Station - Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan. Date: 1937

Male and female police officers on duty in London, walking along a pavement with traffic on the road in the background. The WPC (Siobhan Clark)

Willie Rose - cab driver
Willie Rose, a London taxi cab driver picture in 1965. Described in London Life magazine as the grand old man of the cab trade his son followed him into the business. Date: 1965

Soho, London - Wardour Street and Old Compton Street W1
Soho, London - corner of Wardour Street and Old Compton Street W1, with traffic. 1973

Northumberland Avenue Hotels, London
The World Famous Northumberland Avenue Hotels in London - The Metropole, The Victoria and The Grand. Date: 1910s

Landing stage, Ashar Creek, Basra, Iraq, with boats (water taxis). Date: circa 1918

Place de la Breche, Constantine, Algeria
Aerial view of Place de la Breche (Gap Square), Constantine, Algeria, with taxi rank. Date: circa 1925

Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, Londons 1st lady taxi driver, WW1
Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, who had the distinction of being Londons first female taxi driver, aving passed all the driving tests

The advent of women at the polls, 1929
Two sophisticated and fashionable ladies in heels, cloche hats and fur trimmed coats alight from a taxi at a polling station where they will vote for the first time in the General Election of May

WW2 - Prams with possessions return with Evacuees going home
WW2 - Prams containing possessions return to Euston, London, following Evacuees heading home after the passing of the V1 and V2 rocket attack scare - September 1944. Date: 1944

Dal Lake, Kashmir, India - Shikara Boat
The shikara, a type of Indian wooden boat shown here on Dal Lake and found on many other water bodies of Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1910s

LCC-LFB Car crash, SW London
The Brigade attending the scene of a car crash in Cromwell Road, SW London involving three vehicles

London Snow
Oxford Street, central London, covered in snow. Date: 1987

OLD LONDON TAXI CAB
An old taxi cab driver with his older style cab, at the front of a taxi rank in a London square. Date: 1931

Izmir, Turkey - Place Fassoula with Taxis
Horse-drawn Taxis (Hacks) at Place Fassoula, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Kolinsky Fur Coat 1922
A full-length coat in Kolinsky fur with wrap-over front, funnel sleeves, enormous roll collar & separate skirts with a seam at the hips

Pall Mall, London - Horse Taxi cabs passing The Reform Club (right). Date: circa 1905

Fleet Street - looking west from Ludgate Circus, London - at the time of this photograph, the majority of the buildings and offices were used for Editorial, Printing and Publishing works

Ludgate Circus and St Pauls Cathedral, London Date: circa 1960s

A view of the Central Park taxi stand in Havana, Cuba, 1920s Date: 1920s

Lilian Harvey and Nils Asther rehearsing for The Girl in Tex
Lilian Harvey and Nils Asther rehearsing for the German film The Girl in the Taxi (1927). In the end Asther did not appear in the film (he left Europe for Hollywood)

The Arts Hill (Mont des Arts ) at Brussels, Belgium. Built for the Exhibition of 1910. Date: circa 1910

Soho, London - Golden Square and Lower James Street W1
Soho, London - corner of Golden Square and Lower James Street W1. 1973

Hyde Park Corner - London - Horse Cabs and Early Motorcar
Hyde Park Corner - London - Horse Cabs and an Early Motorcar. Date: 1912

Soho, London - Charing Cross Road WC2 - Astoria Theatre. 1973

Soho, London - Liberty, Great Marlborough Street
Soho, London - Liberty department store, Great Marlborough Street, entrance to Kingly Street. 1973

Paris, France - Boulevard Montmartre, bus and pedestrians with horse cabs. Date: circa 1905

Von Brandis Street, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930

Tokyo Central Railway Station, Japan
The Tokyo Central Railway Station - Japanese Government Railways, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Hippy man in a field at Woburn Park
Hippy man wearing beads, bells and badges in a field during the Love-In at Woburn Park, Bedfordshire. Date: August 1967

Brompton Oratory, London - with cab rank
The Brompton Oratory, London - with cab rank. Date: circa 1910s

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