Omnibuses and cabs

Shillibeer runs omnibuses in opposition to a railway--Extraordinary action of the Stamp and Taxes Office--Shillibeer is ruined--He appeals to the Government for compensation--Go...

Twopenny fares introduced--The first omnibus with advertisements--Penny fares tried--Omnibus improvements--Longitudinal seats objected to by the police--Omnibus associations--Ne...

Compagnie Générale des Omnibus de Londres formed--The London General Omnibus Company starts work--Businesses purchased by the Company--It offers a prize of £100 for the best des...

A new Company--The London and District Omnibus Company, Limited--The London Road Car Company, Limited--Its first omnibuses--The garden seats--The flag and its meaning--Foreigner...

The introduction of hackney-coaches--“The world run on wheels”--The first hackney-coach stand and the oldest cab rank in England--Sedan chairs introduced--Charles I. and Charles...

Cabs introduced into England--Restrictions placed upon them--A comical-looking cab--Dickens on cabs--Hackney-coachmen wish to become cabmen--The cab business a monopoly--Restric...

Hansom invents a cab--Chapman designs and patents the present hansom--Francis Moore’s vehicles--The Hansom patent infringed--Litigation a failure--Pirate cabs called “shofuls”--...

A strike--Cabmen’s revenge on Members of Parliament--Cab radius altered--Cabmen object to knocking at doors--The King of Cabmen--Nicknames--A lady feared by cabmen--The kilometr...

Omnibuses, under the name of _carrosses a cinq sous_, were started in Paris in 1662. The leading spirits in this enterprise were the Duc de Rouanès, Governor of Poitou, the Marq...

Laffitte’s omnibuses were so exceedingly well managed that they continued to prosper in spite of the many new lines started in opposition to them. With a view to maintaining the...

Shortly after dissolving partnership with Morton, Shillibeer relinquished his metropolitan business and began to run omnibuses from London to Greenwich and Woolwich, placing twe...

Some years before Shillibeer introduced omnibuses into England, a number of experienced engineers had devoted themselves to the invention of steam carriages, and so satisfied we...

While Hancock’s steam omnibuses were endeavouring to win public support, horse omnibuses were in a very flourishing condition, and their proprietors were opening new lines in al...

Twopenny fares introduced--The first omnibus with advertisements--Penny fares tried--Omnibus improvements--Longitudinal seats objected to by the police--Omnibus associations--Ne...

Compagnie Générale des Omnibus de Londres formed--The London General Omnibus Company starts work--Businesses purchased by the Company--It offers a prize of £100 for the best des...

After a frost or a slight fall of rain, asphalted Victoria Street and Tottenham-court Road, innocent of sand until many poor horses have slipped and fallen and struggled and str...

A new Company--The London and District Omnibus Company--The London Road Car Company, Limited--Its first omnibuses--The garden seats--The flag and its meaning--Foreigners’ idea o...

On October 9, 1899, the Motor Traction Company, Limited, placed an oil-motor omnibus on the roads. No horseless omnibus had been licensed in London for over sixty years, and, na...

It is said, frequently, that omnibus companies and proprietors have received little or no benefit from the introduction of the ticket system because of the expense connected wit...

Pirate omnibusmen--the pests of the streets of London--although not quite so numerous as once they were, continue, practically unchecked, to defraud ladies, children, foreigners...

The introduction of hackney-coaches--“The world run on wheels”--The first hackney-coach stand and the oldest cab rank in England--Sedan chairs introduced--Charles I. and Charles...

Cabs introduced into England--Restrictions placed upon them--A comical-looking cab--Dickens on cabs--Hackney-coachmen wish to become cabmen--The cab business a monopoly--Restric...

Hansom invents a cab--Chapman designs and patents the present hansom--Francis Moore’s vehicles--The Hansom patent infringed--Litigation a failure--Pirate cabs called “shofuls”--...

A strike--Cabmen’s revenge on Members of Parliament--Cab radius altered--Cabmen object to knocking at doors--The King of Cabmen--Nicknames--A lady feared by cabmen--The kilometr...

On October 4, 1875, a Cab and Cab-Horse Show was opened at the Alexandra Palace, and attracted a large number of people to Muswell Hill. The first prize for the most convenient...

Cab proprietors receive applications for work from all classes of men. One morning a particularly dissipated-looking fellow strolled into a cab-yard, not far from King’s Cross,...

From the introduction of hansoms and clarences until 1897, no new cab of any importance was licensed. There were, however, several improved hansoms placed upon the streets. The...