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	Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
		The Fellowship of Hackney Carriage Drivers was recognised by the Corporation of London in 1990, and became a Livery Company in 2004.
		The Company is made up solely from men and women of the licensed taxi trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Hackney_Carriage_Drivers (198 words)

	Hackney carriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hackney carriages originated in the 17th century as horse-drawn carriages, later modernized as hansom cabs (1834), that operated as vehicles for hire.
		Today the regulations define a hackney carriage as a taxicab allowed to ply the streets looking for passengers to pick up, as opposed to private hire vehicles (sometimes called minicabs), which may only pick up passengers who have previously booked or who visit the taxi operator's office.
		Note the distinction between a generic hackney carriage and a hackney coach, a hireable vehicle with specifically four wheels, two horses and six seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hackney_carriage (568 words)

	Hackney carriage jerak.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hackney carriages originated in the 17th century as horse-drawn carriage s, later modernized as hansom cab s (1834), that operated as vehicle for hire.
		As of 2006 the regulations define a hackney carriage as a taxicab allowed to ply the streets looking for passengers to pick up, as opposed to minicab s (sometimes called minicabs), which may only pick up passengers who have previously booked or who visit the taxi operator's office.
		The name hackney derives not from the borough of London_Borough_of_Hackney in London, but from the French language word haquenée (an ambling horse or hack) referring to the horse s which pulled the original carriages.
	hackney.carriage.en.jerak.org (549 words)

	Taxicab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Originally, hackney carriage companies were distinguished from each other by their drivers' livery (uniforms) and by the colours of their carriages.
		Black cabs--also known as hackney carriages, or hackney cabs--are particularly famous on account of the specially constructed vehicles and the extensive training course ("The Knowledge") required for fully licensed drivers; unlike many other cities, the number of taxi drivers is not limited.
		London's cab drivers are even well-known for having developed an especially big hippocampus, a region of the brain where, among other things, information about locations is stored (this is likely the case with many other taxi drivers, as well--not just those of London).
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Taxicab (1841 words)

	The Priory Church of Saint Bartholomew the Great
		The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, number 8 in the order of seniority of the Livery Companies of the City of London, had temporary offices in Bartholomew Close during the building of their new hall in West Smithfield, which has now opened.
		The Worshipful Company of Butchers, one of the seven oldest of the City of London Livery Companies, continues to be a highly active Company both within the City of London and the meat industry.
		The Worshipful Company of Farriers is first and foremost a fellowship of men and women who are Free of the Company and the City, and therefore, by definition, Citizens of the City of London, regardless of where they live, and who share a dual interest in the Horse and the City.
	www.greatstbarts.com /livery.htm (1017 words)

	Livery Company - SquareMileWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 106 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company of the relevant trade or profession.
		The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
		Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
	inthesquaremile.com /wiki/Livery_Company (789 words)

	The Cabby
		Drivers have as far as I can remember negotiated with passengers who are considering a long journey although they are not compelled to offer a fare lower than that displayed on the taximeter at the end of the journey.
		A women was sprayed in the face with a noxious substance as she tried to escape from a bogus minicab driver in Birmingham and a women was sexually assaulted in Wrexham after accepting a lift from a man posing as a taxi driver.
		Bogus drivers prey on the fact that many people don't know how to distinguish between a licensed and a non licensed vehicle and this is compounded at the end of the night out when they are more interested in getting home quickly than stopping to check what sort of vehicle they are getting into.
	www.thecabby.co.uk (3692 words)

	da Hyrevogn Alternate meaning taxicab geometry taxicab geometry ...
		Originally, hackney carriage companies were distinguished from each other by their drivers' livery livery (uniforms) and by the colours of their carriages.
		In a slightly different sense of "livery", the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers became a City of London City of London Livery Company Livery Company in 2004 2004.
		London's cab drivers are even well-known for having developed an especially big hippocampus hippocampus, a region of the brain brain where, among other things, information about locations is stored (this is likely the case with many other taxi drivers, as well--not just those of London).
	www.biodatabase.de /taxicab (1884 words)

	taxicab information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This isincorrect, and when a minicab company uses the word taxi on their livery it can lead to prosecution by the local government body.A cab that cannot be flagged down on the street is known as a private hire vehicle.
		Most experienced taxi drivers who have been working in the same city or region for a while would be expected to know the mostimportant streets and places where their customers might want to go.
		Black cabs--also known as hackney carriages, or hackneycabs--are particularly famous on account of the specially constructed vehicles and the extensive training course (" The Knowledge ") required for fully licensed drivers ; unlike many other cities, the number of taxi drivers is not limited.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /taxicab.html (1797 words)

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		Livery Companies are all involved in charitable works, with The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers being no exception.
		Perhaps the most widely known event of the Company is the annual Magical Taxi Tour when members taken sick and terminally ill children in a long convoy of cabs to Disneyland Paris.
		The main purpose of the Livery Companies is to bring together like-minded persons who wish to maintain and secure the long-term interests of those who earn a living within the trade.
	www.thelondontaxi.co.uk /page4.html (590 words)

	Taxi and Cab - Finda-Cab.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The conventional radios are most suited to companies that operate within the local area and have a high volume of radio traffic.
		Taxi companies also may run multiple businesses, such as medallion car services, delivery services, and school buses, for additional revenue, as the infrastructure required for maintaining, operating and dispatching the fleet can be shared.
		The driver operates the meter during the course of each trip and at trip's end collects the usual zone fare but records both the zone and meter fare for comparative purposes.
	www.finda-cab.co.uk (3612 words)

	Other Livery Companies
		Today’s livery companies are not picturesque leftovers of history but living institutions, whose activities have been commended by successive Royal Commissions and hose liverymen assemble in Common Hall to carry out important functions in the elections of the City’s government and certain of its officers.
		In certain companies the officers are known by different titles, for example, the Fishmongers have a Prime Warden instead of a Master, and the number of wardens may vary between two and four according to the size of the company.
		The Worshipful Company of GrocersGuildable Manor of Southwark
	www.barberscompany.org.uk /links.htm (1084 words)

	Articles - Taxicab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Taxis are often "hailed" or "flagged" on the street, either by a passenger as a taxi is driving by, or at a taxi stand (sometimes also called a "cab stand" or "hack stand," also "taxi rank" or "cab rank").
		However, to aid the process of manual navigation and the taxi driver´s memory (and the customer´s as well at times) a cab driver is usually equipped with a detailed roadmap of the area in which they work.
		There are two major types of taxis in Seoul—an "individual" taxi, which is run by just the driver, instead of a company, and a "model" taxi, which is painted fl and is bigger (in size) and much more expensive.
	www.landize.com /articles/Taxicab (3671 words)

	Livery Company
		The 107 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company of the relevant trade or profession.
		Some Livery Companies (for example, the Scriveners) continue to have a regulatory role today, and some (for example, the Longbow Stringmakers) have become inoperative.
		As of 2005, there is one new City Company without Livery (the Security Professionals) and two old bodies which, for historical reasons, are recognised as City Companies without Livery; two further guilds (Educators and Public Relations Practitioners) aim to obtain a grant of Livery.
	articles.gourt.com /?article=Livery+Company (900 words)

	Taxicab - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		In the United States, many older taxi companies are named according to their paint schemes.
		In another sense of livery, the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers became a City of London Livery Company in 2004.
		With the advent of PDN in the 1990s, operators are beginning to use PDA's and advanced mobile phones for dispatching and tracking functions in lieu of the traditional radio.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Taxicab (2424 words)

	Introduction
		The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers was constituted by the Court of Aldermen in 1569, granted a livery of thirty in 1825 (in more recent years extended to five hundred) and received its Royal Charter from George VI in 1937.
		The Company was formed to regulate and control the basketmaking trade in the City of London and by an order of Common Council in 1463 trade was concentrated in the manor of Blanche Appleton, in the area of the present Guild Church of St. Margaret Pattens.
		The Company possesses not only a superb collection, extending more than three centuries, of plate, regalia and records, but many examples of basketwork, including some miniature Madeira baskets presented by the late Princess Royal when she became an honorary Freeman as was the late Queen Mary.
	www.basketmakersco.org /introduction.htm (481 words)

	INDIACAR.NET - Bringing you the latest auto news
		Taxi drivers are better known for their forthright views on football rather than on-the-pitch toe twinkling, but a team of London cabbies recently took on a team of Finnish cabbies at the beautiful game.
		While the Reva is a compact city car for two adults and two children, Mr Maini said the company was also working on the same platform to build larger vehicles and had already designed a c S C look at the brand positioning advertisements.
		Phil Davis, of the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers, said: 'We have a great entente cordial with the Finns.
	www.indiacar.net /news/n17891.htm (245 words)

	Taxi First - High specification taxi services with a little personal service
		The Magical Taxi Tour is a charity event organised by The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers every year, taking seriously ill children on a holiday of a lifetime to the magical Kingdom of Disneyland Paris.
		The Albany are a charity run by working Taxi drivers giving children with various disabilities days out to the seaside that they might otherwise not have in a convoy of 100 brightly decorated taxis.
		The Public Carriage Office is responsible for the licensing of all Taxi and Private Hire vehicles in London, formerly under the Metropolitan Police they are now part of Transport for London which is administered by the Mayors office, Transport for London also operate the lost property office.
	www.taxi-first.co.uk /links.htm (278 words)

	Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		However, the Company takes the view that it is up to members to make that election if they do not wish their contact details to appear.
		The List of Members is only distributed to other members of the Worshipful Company, but if any members do not wish their contact details to be circulated within that select group, they should contact the Clerk without delay to make those wishes known to her.
		The Company's Second Trust has been able to provide financial support to a student of the school so as to allow her to continue with her studies in circumstances where she would otherwise have had to withdraw for lack of funds.
	www.arbitratorscompany.com /news/newsletters/news_2005_10.php (4534 words)

	The Company Of Security Professionals
		Because it is the one real occasion that we can show our selves off to the City of London, its Worshipful Companies and to the Court of Aldermen that we are a mature and worthy body to become a Livery; ever mindful of the history and dignity of the City and Corporation of London.
		We too are a dignified body, fulfilling the ethos of the livery system of fellowship, charity and education and ever watchful of the etiquette of the Livery.
		The Master and Wardens pf the Worshipful Company of Painters - Stainers invited the Clerk and I to their annual reception and private view of fine art at Painters Hall, a little gem which is tucked away in Little Trinity Lane, EC4.
	www.professionalsecurity.co.uk /company/mastersoct.htm (1719 words)

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		The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers recently held
		Membership of the company continues to grow steadily and the
		company is always pleased to have new members proposed.
	www.thelondontaxi.co.uk /page11.html (339 words)

	www.london-taxi.co.uk - The Premier London Taxi Website
		Little Kids Smile is a DVD music video written by Joe Cartwright and performed by the Taxi Allstars to raise money for the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers annual charity trip to Disney for children with life threatening illnesses.
		Help to send some seriously ill children on a weekend of a lifetime on the Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers annual Magical Taxi Tour to the Wonderful World of Disneyland Paris.
		It costs approx £1000.00 per Taxi to be able to undertake this enormous and exciting event and to give approx 300 children this wonderful experience.
	www.london-taxi.co.uk (926 words)

	Lynne's Parliament and Haringey diary
		The company that invited me - Panlogic - turns out to have come across me through one of their directors living in the constituency, reading my blog and visiting my website.
		As the research they are launching today is basically about e-marketing and demonstrates that the age group between 50 and 65 (us ex-hippies with conscience, peace and love man) are still desperately caring people who want to engage in issues and change things for the better.
		I have crafted it quite carefully as the LTDA (one of the representative groups for drivers) has previously attacked me for saying there are not enough cabs around due to a driver shortage.
	www.lynnefeatherstone.org /2005/11/17-seconds-wait-for-cab.htm (580 words)

	Livery Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
		For instance, the Scriveners' Company regulates and oversees Notaries Public of the City of London.
		In 1515, after years of dispute, an order of precedence was settled for the Livery Companies of the time based on the Companies' economic or political power.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/l/li/livery_company.html (680 words)

	dersimdestani.info: Hackney_carriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Encyclopedia : H : HA : HAC : Hackney carriage
		They were originally Hansom cabs, horse-drawn carriages that operated as vehicles for hire.
		Despite the name, other colours can be observed -most frequently when large groups of cabs are resprayed in vivid brand liveries as part of advertisement campaigns.
	www.dersimdestani.info /index.php?title=Hackney_carriage (363 words)

	Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It also runs a magical taxi tour to Disneyland Paris for terminally ill children.
		Its education teaches taxi drivers about the history of
		I recently bought a house for the first time and did not have a cordless driver.
	www.freeglossary.com /Worshipful_Company_of_Hackney_Carriage_Drivers (301 words)

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