Cab was for one passenger protected by a high hood which separated him from the driver at his side.

Hansom's cab had a square body in a square frame with wheels as high as the vehicle.

The modern hansom was introduced in 1836.(see original text with original image)

Identifier: traillsocialengl06trai (find matches)
Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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London till 1870, when the Tramways Act was passed. The fashionable family carriages in the period 1820-40 wereyellow landaus, displaced in 1839 by the homely brougham,which allowed four to ride inside behind one horse. The dandyrode in a tilbury or curricle, which required two servants.There were also high four-horse phaetons, landaulets, Dennetsor Stanhope gigs, Clarences, Ais-a-vis. The middle and lower (Y. Dickenss account of it in Oliver Twist. SOCIAL LIFE. 139 1832) classes did not penetrate into Hyde Park at the fashionablehours, and then, as now, no hired cabs were there to detractfrom the brilliance of the scene. The control of the traffic, which had belonged to the street- Police,keeper in most parts of London, passed in 1829 to a newpolice force. There had been in 1S18, 1822, and 1828 inquiriesinto the condition of the London police, which shi)wed theorganisation to be inadequate, antiquated, and indeed almostmedieval in character. There was first the general police for the
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SPECIFICATION DRAWINGS FOR IIAXSOJIS CAB, 1834. City, under the control of the Lord Mayor and aldermen, whichconsisted of a niunber of officers engaged in day or nightpatrol, whoso duty it was to visit the watch-houses and super-vise the officers appointed by the wards. Each ward appointeda certain number of beadles, constables, watchmen, and street-keepers, paid by a rate levied on the ward. The beadles wereannually elected; the constables, who were chosen in rotationfrom the inhabitants of the ward, and were bound to attend thewhole night at the watch-house, received no salary, but couldhire substitutes from £8 15s. a year. Only in some wards wasthere an afternoon patrol, from about three or four p.m. till thenight watch was set. The watchmen were appointed by theAlderman and Common Council of the ward, and since the Actof 1817 care was taken to employ none but able-bodied men.Almost every ward had a street-keeper to regulate the traffic,who attended from eight a.m. till the patrol

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