Taxi Collection (page 6)

Invercargill, New Zealand - Most Southern Gas Lampost and Hansom cab in the world! Date: 1906

Steam taxicab. Paris 1878. Date: 1878

London taxi in basement crash
A London taxi which has crashed through some iron railings into the basement area at the front of a house. Date: early 20th century

Romania - Bucharest - Piata Teatrului (Theatre Square) Date: circa 1909

Too Talkative - Distracted lady driver
Too Talkative - A distracted lady horse cab driver, deep in conversation with her smartly-dressed male fare, forgets where she is heading and mounts a kerb - Place de la Concorde, Paris, France

Off for a ride in a taxi
A well-to-do French couple head off for a drive in the country in a fine De Dion & Bouton taxi. I would not be surprised if the taxi driver had arrived fresh from English chauffeur school

1920s taxi
Taxicab, Lund, Scania 1920s. Date: 1920s

Burlington House, London
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London - the site of the Royal Academy of Arts Date: circa 1905

Javanese Horse Cab
A horse taxi cab, Java, Dutch East Indes (Indonesia). Date: 1930s

A Jutka carriage - India
A Jutka carriage or cab - India Date: circa 1910s

Regent Street Traffic
Taxis and traffic on Regent Street, central London. Date: late 1960s

Victoria & Albert Museum
The taxi rank in front of the Victoria and Albert Museum, on Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, designed by Sir Aston Webb and completed in 1909. Date: 1950s

London Black Cabs
Lots of the famous Black Cabs on St. Jamess Street, central London. Date: late 1960s

A new thrill for bathers: water sport in 1913
Taxi-ing behind a motor boat: a new thrill for bathers. Water planing on a plank towed at 35 mph. Date: 1913

One seated Bullock Ekka (Taxi)
A one-seated Bullock ekka in India - a ype of carriage used in India, usually pulled by horses. Ekkas (the word is Hindi in origin) were commonly used as cabs, or private hire vehicles

Javanese Taxi
A horse-drawn taxi cab in Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Britannia and Eve front cover, October 1932
Front cover of Britannia and Even magazine featuring an elegant woman in coordinated blue suit and hat, holding a fur coat, waiting while a bell boy, laden down with her packages and hat boxes

S Teerwood. The taxi-cab
A taxi cab waits outside a luxury hotel for its next customer

Met Police PC and WPC, urban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a busy urban street in Central London. They both carry a set of handcuffs at their waists

Female Horse Taxi Driver - Paris
Female cab driver in Paris - Mademoiselle Blance Etinenne - holding her horses head. Lady cab drivers were seen by paying customers as a far safer bet than their male counterparts

Help for Taxi drivers / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - social reform. A kind hearted lady takes a taxi driver for a ride in his own taxi, at her own expense. Please note

Gough Statue and Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Gough Statue (Viscount Hugh Gough (1779 - 1869) born in Limerick) and Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. Blown up by Irish Nationalists in the early morning of 23 July 1957

Toronto, Canada - Yonge Street looking north. Crowds of onlookers are waiting for something, or lots of people are shopping at once

Tatler Christmas Shopping Number 1957
An elegant woman in a fitted black skirt suit and matching hat seems to have become rather tangled with her roy dog as she balances a huge pile of Christmas presents before getting into a taxi on a

Christmas Shopping 1913
A smart lady, laden with Christmas gifts and a small lap dog, has an expression which suggests she may have spent rather too much money

Pullman Car, c. 1910
Pullman Car running between Portland Place and Queens Gate in London

A Huddersfield Horse cab
A fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier

Place Vendome, Paris - under snow
Place Vendome, Paris under snow - photograph taken from the front door of the Ritz Hotel. The column is 44 metres high - encased in the bronze of 1250 cannons captured at the Battle of Austerliz

London taxi cab attacked by drivers during strike
A London taxi cab is attacked in the street during a taxi cab drivers strike which took place from 31 October to 9 November

Taxi cab drivers strike, Charing Cross, London
The almost empty forecourt of Charing Cross Station in Central London, during a brief taxi cab drivers strike (31 October to 9 November)

Ford Model T (taxi?)
Ford Model T with special body and radiator (possibly in use as a taxi cab?)

Renault Taxi
A Renault Taxi

Taxi Cab and Motor Fire Escape
A bright and shiny fire engine populated by a team of firemen and ladder are given right of way through a busy street. In the background waits a taxi cab piled high with luggage on its roof

Mexico - Pachuca Railway Station

Algeceras, Spain - Street Scene with a line of horse-drawn Alrededores - horse taxis

Izmir, Turkey - Quayside dressed with flags
The Quayside at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey dressed with flags for a Festival, including French, Italian, Greek and Turkish flags

Egypt - The Citadel
A line of wonderful old taxi cabs parked below the imposing fortifications of the Cairo Citadel

Airship over the Champs Elysees, Paris
An Airship flying over the Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris. The street is filled with early motor taxis

Now that Women are doing Mens Jobs
Festive illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing a woman dressed up as Father Christmas. The illustration is a festive metaphor for the increase in women taking over mens roles during

When Ignorance is Bliss Cartoon, 1928
Cartoon showing a disagreement between a French taxi-driver and an English passenger, 1928. The original caption was When Ignorance is Bliss - Sorry, I don t understand a word of French

THE KNOWLEDGE
A London taxi driver (note the for hire sign) gives directions to a lost gentleman, perhaps a foreign tourist. Drivers armband reads Je parle Francais

London Cabs 1931
A taxi rank of old London motor cabs

China / Shanghai
A fleet of rickshaws awaiting business on a street in Shanghai, China

SMART DAY WEAR 1964-65
A woman in smart day wear & fur hat getting into a taxi

TAXI
A woman in smart stylish suit of straight knee-length skirt & a collarless sac like short jacket with tie fastening, fur hat & stiletto heels hails a taxi

MALI SEGOU
Rooftop view, not showing the bazaars, temples, banks, hospitals, taxi ranks, public baths, public toilets, police stations, brothels or indeed anything very much

Charing Cross C1915
Looking east along the Strand, with Charing Cross station on the right; motor buses and taxi-cabs drive past Queen Eleanors Cross

Horse Cab in Majorca
The driver of a horse-drawn cab in Majorca, Spain, has a snooze during a quiet period

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