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- 2. Vocabulary To ply for hire – сдавать в аренду To charge – нагружать, загружать To adjust
- 3. HORSE-CABS AND HACKNEY CARRIAGES The term ‘hackney’, as used in hackney coaches and cabs comes from
- 4. A Hansom cab Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli called them ‘the gondolas of London’
- 5. A Hansom cab The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in
- 6. 28 Summer Place South Kensington
- 7. First Coaches The first man who organized hackney coaches and coachmen in a form that we
- 8. The Coachman’s Uniform
- 9. The First Post-War Taxicabs In the early years, the biggest taxi manufacturer was William Beardmore of
- 10. MOTOR CABS London’s first motor cabs were electrically powered. They were called Berseys after Walter C.
- 11. An early Unic cab, made in Paris
- 12. A new Austin cab, “the High Lot” An Austin 12/4 Low Loader taxi from the mid-1930s.
- 13. THE SECOND WORLD WAR The Second World War severely damaged the trade again, the production of
- 14. The Biggest Taxi Dealership In 1929 Mann and Overton, the biggest taxi dealership, sponsored Austin to
- 15. The Austin Low Loader 12/4
- 16. The Austin FX3 of the 1950s
- 17. The well-known FX4, introduced in 1958 The FX4, probably the most famous of all London taxis
- 18. TODAY Metro-Cammell-Weymann launched an all-new Metrocab in 1987. The cab’s body was made of fibre glass
- 19. The Fibre-glass Metrocab
- 20. Hooper Metrocab Since 1987, Metrocab has been one of the best known manufactures of iconic London
- 21. MISCELLANEA The laws governing London’s taxi trade go back nearly four centuries. A London cab driver’s
- 22. Green Badge
- 23. An Argo taximeter of the 1930s, as fitted to an Austin 12/4
- 24. A Taximeter A taximeter is by definition what makes a ‘cab’ a ‘taxicab’. Fitting of a
- 25. Green Badge Knowledge The Green Badge Knowledge is the name of the training needed to be
- 26. Three Types of Taxis in London
- 27. Black Cabs Unlike other London taxis, London's black cabs are licensed by the police. Drivers must
- 28. Mini Cabs All that is needed to drive a mini cab is a valid driving licence.
- 29. Taxi Touts These are completely illegal and are bad news, avoid them like the plague. They
- 30. Welcome to London! The taxi trade in London is the oldest regulated public transport system in
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