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	Morven Park - Westmoreland Memorial Foundation - Winmill Carriage Museum
		Known as the Hansom Safety Cab, its purpose was to combine speed with safety, with a low center of gravity that was essential for safe cornering and overtaking.
		Hansom Cabs were often hired by society bachelors and clubmen, but were not particularly popular with the ladies.
		The Hansom Cab was brought to the United States during the late nineteenth century, and was most commonly used in New York City.
	www.morvenpark.org /hansom.htm (386 words)

	Joseph Hansom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Aloysius Hansom (October 26, 1803 - June 29, 1882) was an English architect who invented the Hansom cab.
		Hansom was born in Micklegate, York and baptised as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e), to a Roman Catholic family.
		On December 23, 1834 he registered the design of a Patent Safety Cab, on the suggestion of his employer, and subsequently sold the patent to a company for £10,000, which, however, owing to the company's financial difficulties, was never paid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Hansom (212 words)

	Hansom cab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage first designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from Hinckley, Leicestershire, England.
		Hansom cabs enjoyed immense popularity as they were fast, light enough to be pulled by a single horse, (making the journey cheaper than travelling in a larger four-wheel coach) and were agile enough to steer around horse-drawn vehicles in the notorious traffic jams of nineteenth-century London.
		The cab was introduced to the United States during the late 19th century, and was most commonly used in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hansom_Cab (374 words)

	cab - definition by dict.die.net
		cab n 1: a compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits 2: small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood [syn: cabriolet] 3: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: hack, taxi, taxicab]
		Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front.
		Cab hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about two English quarts.
	dict.die.net /cab (160 words)

	America on the Move \| Hansom Cab
		The driver's seat is mounted high on the rear of the cab enabling the driver to control and see his horse as well as traffic.
		The hansom cab was patented by Joseph Hansom of England in 1834.
		Hansom cabs were used in the United States in the late nineteenth century and were commonly found in New York City.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/collection/object_33.html (227 words)

	Taxi History - London Vintage Taxi Association
		From the middle of the 19th century two types of cab began to dominate, the two-wheeled hansom, a fast and elegant carriage and the ponderous four-wheeled ‘growler’ which, with its luggage carrying ability was to be found mostly at railway stations.
		The cab was introduced in 1919 and because of its sturdiness and comfort it became known as the ‘Rolls-Royce of cabs’.
		However, the cabs were underpowered for the job and most were returned to the ranks, although some drivers remained in the AFS and served with much distinction.
	www.lvta.co.uk /history.htm (2365 words)

	CA. 1900 Hansom Cab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hansom's original was redesigned a number of times.
		The Hansom was still awkward and difficult to handle.
		Note the similarity of the coachman and the later chauffeur operating from the outside of the vehicle.
	www.ohtm.org /1900hansom.html (76 words)

	Hansom
		The Hansom cab was one of the principal means of transport for decades because of its twin virtues of stability and privacy.
		Although the later design of the cab was rather different from Hansom's first attempt, the origins of the 19th century cab were firmly rooted in the Regent Street workshops.
		Hansom had a prolific career, designing Birmingham Town Hall, Plymouth Cathedral and many other churches, convents, schools and mansions; as well as bringing out the very first edition of the "Builder" magazine.
	www.hinckley-online.co.uk /hansom.shtml (178 words)

	Hansom Cabs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the cab's design was altered before it attained popularity, the name of its creator stuck with it, and the "hansom" cab became a part of Victorian life.
		The cab is simply refered to as "a cab," unspecified as to whether it was a four-wheeler or a hansom.
		If indeed that cab was a hansom, it has to be assumed that Miss Morstan was in such a state of shock from her adventure that she went mindlessly where Watson led her.
	www.sherlockpeoria.net /Hansom_pages/HansomCabs.html (1288 words)

	The London Taxi
		Hansom sold his rights in the cab for £10,000 though it is said he was never paid, but by a strange fate Hansom's name was mistaken for the most famous cab of all, the two wheeler Hansom cab, with the driver at the rear, it was in fact the invention of John Chapman.
		In 1869 control of the cabs was given to the Home Secretary who delegated his authority to the Commissioner of police, who in turn set up The Public Carriage Office, and because of these stringent arrangements London has the finest taxi service in the world.
		It was disliked by cab drivers who did not want to be told the fares to charge by machines.
	knowledgeoflondon.com /taxis.html (651 words)

	Joseph Aloysius Hansom
		In 1834 he registered the design of a "Patent Safety Cab", and subsequently sold the patent to a company for £10,000, which, however, owing to the company's financial difficulties, was never paid.
		The hansom cab as improved by subsequent alterations, nevertheless, took and held the fancy of the public.
		In 1834 Hansom founded the Builder newspaper, but was compelled to retire from this enterprise owing to insufficient capital.
	www.nndb.com /people/032/000101726 (237 words)

	The Eggcorn Database » handsome
		Footage of a horse and handsome cab riding through Central Park pops off the screen, causing audience members to reach out and try to touch the animal.
		Initially she drove a wagonette drawn by a ‘pair of polished horses who trotted briskly’ and a handsome cab before she was forced to buy a car because of increasing competition.
		The Hansom cab is named after its inventor, Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803 - 1882).
	eggcorns.lascribe.net /english/306/handsome (235 words)

	Transport - Hansom Cab in Eagle Inn Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alexander Wilson's collection of photographs includes several of the different means of transport which were in use during his time in Dundee.
		The Hansom cab, a two-wheeled carriage with the driver at the back, was very popular.
		Robertson, one of the city's many coach-hirers, pioneered the rubber-tyred version in the city and rapidly built up the business he had joined as a worker into a sizeable concern.
	www.dundeecity.gov.uk /photodb/wc1014.htm (153 words)

	JOSEPH ALOYSIUS HANSOM - LoveToKnow Article on JOSEPH ALOYSIUS HANSOM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1834 he registered the design of a Patent Safety Cab, and subsequently sold the patent to a company for 1o,ooo, which, however, owing to the companys financial difficulties, was never paid.
		The hansom cab as improved by subsequent alterations, nevertheless, took and held the fancy of the public.
		In 1834 Hansom founded the Builder newspaper, but was compelled to retire from this enterprise owing to insufficient capital.
	www.1911ency.org /H/HA/HANSOM_JOSEPH_ALOYSIUS.htm (253 words)

	Crystal Palace luxury display cases. Curio Cabinets for Swarovski Crystal in 24K goldplated
		Joseph Hansom (October 26, 1803 — buried July 3, 1882) was an English architect who invented the Hansom cab.
		Hansom then moved to Halifax, and formed a partnership with Edward Welch, building churches and the Birmingham Town Hall.
		It was there that he registered the idea of a patent safety cab on December 23, 1834, on the suggestion of his Swarovski employer.
	www.display-cabinets.uk.com /news3/hansom.html (183 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The driver of a taxicab is referred to as a cab driver or cabbie, and sometimes as a chauffeur or hackie.
		The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by a wave of the arm) is often called to hail a cab or to flag down a cab.
		[1913 Webster] Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=cab (242 words)

	CollectingChannel.com News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1834, a patent was taken out for an improved, two-wheeled safety cab by Hansom, the architect of Birmingham town hall.
		The safety consisted in an arrangement of the framework that prevented the cab tilting backwards or forwards in case of accident.
		This spiffy cast iron hansom cab is 13 inches long and can sell today for as much as $1,800.
	www.collectingchannel.com /cdsdetart.asp?CID=12&PID=10191 (623 words)

	hansom cab -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		They were formerly used for many types of road vehicles, but they have now disappeared from highways owing to legislation that discouraged their use because they were hard on roads.
		The cabs and their drivers, the London cabbies, are products of a system of licensing that dates to 1639.
		By about 1900 more than 11,000 registered cabs were plying for hire on the streets of London, and there were double that number a century later.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039177 (784 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		According to Plutarch it was a cab (or "hired carriage" in John Dryden's translation) which brought Julius Caesar to the banks of the Rubicon in 49 B.C., and it may well be that proto-cabbies were plying their trade at the dawn of urban history.
		It was a rival cab builder, John Chapman, who completely redesigned the hansom, placing the driver's seat at the rear of the vehicle and giving it its elegant and distinctive profile.
		Hansom bought out Chapman's company, but he made little or no money out of it -- so many carriage makers infringed on the design that all hansoms acquired the nickname "shoful" (a slang term for "counterfeit").
	taxi-world.home.att.net /anech.htm (2413 words)

	[No title]
		Another gent who is on the square comes up and sings out for a cab for him--first he says he don't know him, and then he shows plainly he does--he walks away in a temper, changes his mind, comes back and gets into the cab, after telling the cabby to drive down to St. Kilda.
		He thought he was driving in a hansom, when suddenly he found Whyte by his side, clad in white cerements, grinning and gibbering at him with ghastly merriment.
		Then the cab went over a precipice, and he fell from a great height, down, down, with the mocking laughter still sounding in his ears, until he woke with a loud cry, and found it was broad daylight, and that drops of perspiration were standing on his brow.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext03/mhnsc10.txt (20673 words)

	Hansom Cab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If Joseph Aloysius Hansom invented the Hansom cab, once the most popular of horse-drawn carriages — “the gondolas of London,” as Disraeli called them — he certainly gained nothing from his invention.
		Most authorities vouch for Hansom, but one source claims that Edward Bird invented the vehicle, presenting the idea gratis to his brother-in-law, Edward Welch, a partner of Hansom’s Birmingham architectural firm.
		Promised ten thousand pounds, Hansom received, according to conflicting accounts, either nothing or a mere three hundred pounds for his patent.
	www.allaboutstuff.com /general/Hansom_Cab.asp (209 words)

	Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The architect and inventor J. Hansom was born in York, and was apprenticed first in that town and then in Halifax, before setting up in partnership with Edward Welch in 1828.
		Hansom designed and built Birmingham Town Hall in a noble, classical Roman style, but the firm was bankrupted in the process.
		Hansom went on to lead a varied career, partnering a string of different architects, inventing the famous Hansom Cab, and founding the eminent architectural magazine
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/arch/hansom.htm (121 words)

	The mystery of a hansom cab, pt. 1 (1886, this ed. ?) by Fergus Hume
		This was the origin of the "Cab." The central idea i.e., the murder in a cab — came to me while driving at a late hour to St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne; but it took some time and much thought to work it out to a logical conclusion.
		The deceased fell back into the cab, and seemed to drop off to sleep; so, after closing the door, Royston turned to remount his driving-seat, when he found the gentleman in the light coat whom he had seen holding up the deceased, close to his elbow.
		The hansom cab murder had been placed in his hands for solution, and he was trying to think how he should make a beginning.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /hansomX1.htm (12777 words)

	Central Park hansom cab ride (New York City Tours - Central Park)
		It's a tourist stereotype, but it's fun and not something you do every day, which must be why everyone does it.
		The cabs line up around the south end of the park, across from the famous Plaza Hotel.
		Rides tend to run around $25 and loop up to the halfway point of the park and around - maybe about 20 minutes.
	www.taquitos.net /travel/nyc/?item=41 (156 words)

	Fergus Hume : The Mystery of a Hansom Cab : Preface
		In its original form, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" has reached the sale of 375,000 copies in this country, and some few editions in the United States of America.
		Up to that time I had written only one or two short stories, and the "Cab" was not only the first book I ever published, but the first book I ever wrote; so to youth and lack of experience must be ascribed whatever was wanting in the book.
		Author of 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,'" and also added the price for which he was prepared to write a similar book.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.1550/sec.1 (967 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The next time you use your whistle, blow it twice, and a hansom cab shall arrive.
		Hansom cabs are vastly more reliable than growlers, and they are hardly any less comfortable." >I You are carrying a whistle, a train schedule, a riddle, a pound note, and a shilling.
		You are thrown to the back of your seat as the cab races through the streets, and moments later, you find yourself outside King's Cross Station.
	www.ifarchive.org /if-archive/infocom/shipped-documentation/sample.from.sherlock (1552 words)

	30" Hansom Cab Weathervane
		This 30" hansom cab weathervane is a charming throwback to pre-industrial America.
		Both the weather vane and the ground pin are crafted of rust-free aluminum.
		The cab weathervane ornament measures 17"L x 8"H. The complete weathervane is approximately 30 inches tall.
	www.weathervanesplus.com /hansomcab.html (147 words)

	Ye Olde Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the inquest held on the body found in the hansom cab the following articles taken from the deceased were placed on the table:--
		Samuel Gorby, of the detective office, was present in order to see if anything might be said by the witnesses likely to point to the cause or to the author of the crime.
		Yes, I did; but his friend said that the sleep and the shaking of the cab would sober him a bit by the time I got to the Junction.
	www.yeoldelibrary.com /text/HumeF/hansom/002.htm (1592 words)

	eBay - hansom cab, United States, Advertising items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HANSOM CAB, SCOTT 1904A, PNC'S 4 and 5
		CARRIAGE by STEVENSON OF STIRLING, 1863 HANSOM CAB
		Hansom Cab CALVO fl white photograph art new york
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=hansom+cab&newu=1&krd=1 (469 words)

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