Other Cab History Sites

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• The Checker Taxi Stand. History of the Checker Cab illustrated with several interesting pictures, including photos of restored Checkers.

• Taxicab Confessions: Taxicab Photo History. The Taxicab Confessions site includes a potted history of the New York taxicab industry, illustrated by old cab photos.

• National Motor Museum (Beaulieu, Hampshire, England). This web site is still under construction; it lists the vehicles owned by the Museum, and provides descriptive text for many of them. Eventually photos will be included as well.

  The collection includes three cabs: an 1897 Bersey Electric, the last surviving example of London's original motor cabs; an 1890 Clarence carriage, the classic horse-drawn "four- wheeler" familiar to readers of Sherlock Holmes; and a 1908 Unic 12/14 HP taxicab.

• Musee Suisse des Transports Lucern, Switzerland. Photos and text describe several vehicles in the Museum's collection, including two of interest to cab buffs.

  One of these is an Ajax 8/16 PS "Droschke" Landaulet, which made up part of the fleet of the Zurichs Autodroschke Gesselschaft (Zurich Taxi Company) from 1908 to 1910.

  (Variants of the word "Droschke", meaning "cab", are in common use in Eastern and Central Europe and elsewhere. Alan Fisher reports that many London cabbies refer to their cars as "droshkies".)

  The second car is a 1908 Renault AX. Prior to World War I, these cars were the popular choice for Paris taxi fleets. In 1914 they passed into legend as the "Taxis of the Marne" when all available motor vehicles -- mostly taxis -- were commandeered to rush French troops to the front during the First Battle of the Marne.