| In the 1670's, the city's Corporation received complaints about the traffic congestion caused by hackney coaches. |
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| Wright, who is self-employed, admitted plying for hire without a hackney carriage licence, and driving without insurance. |
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| A hackney carriage plate allows drivers to pick up passengers who flag them down in the street or from ranks in the city. |
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| As the hackney rolled forth the meaning of Caroline's answer registered in Charlotte's mind. |
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| Private hire cabbies have united with hackney drivers as they prepare for battle over bus lanes. |
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| One means was, of course, new taxation, which was imposed on salt, stamps, hackney coaches, and, especially, on land. |
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| And three-quarters of private hire taxis and 55 per cent of hackney cabs stopped for roadside checks were discovered to have faults. |
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| He said 87 objections were received from private hire employees, but none from hackney drivers. |
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| The council wants to scrap limits on the number of hackney cabs being allowed to operate on the streets of Sheffield. |
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| Just 11 accessible hackney cabs serve an estimated 46,000 disabled people in the district. |
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| He ran past the long blocks of burnt and condemned warehouses, and finally found a hackney cab for hire. |
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| He was walking back to his accommodation near the company offices when he was struck by a hackney cab. |
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| It is an offence to use a taxi rank unless you are a licenced hackney carriage, so why do cars flout this law? |
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| He said this month all 82 hackney carriages had passed their yearly inspection. |
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| In the early 1950s Edmund Gannon set up his bicycle repair shop with radio services, hackney business, undertaking and bottled gas. |
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| The letter recommended the council should aim for a target of wheelchair accessibility in 50 per cent of the borough's hackney cabs. |
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| An increase in hackney carriage numbers can lead to additional pressure on hackney carriage stands. |
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| Like hackney, Taylor Bickford has mostly worked to get Republicans elected. |
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| A hackney carriage vehicle licence in Shropshire costs £130 compared to £220 in Birmingham. |
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| Colin drives a licensed hackney carriage and is also a private hire driver in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. |
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| In the last century, Jean Astruc, coachman of hackney carriage in Bourigeole's castel, travels the roads around Limoux. |
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| He caught a hackney cab into the more fashionable part of London. |
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| Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue. |
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| A rather wonderful tribute to Joan Rivers greeted commuters at hackney Wick Overground station in London this morning. |
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| I would advise people to take a couple of seconds before getting into a taxi to check if it is a licensed hackney carriage or private hire vehicle. |
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| Taxi licensing is dealt with by local authorities and Ribble Valley Council currently has 26 operators, 66 private hire vehicles, 49 hackney cabs and 81 drivers on its books. |
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| Aside from the safety issues, this deprives the legitimate hackney carriage trade of work. |
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| They are usually, but not always, black with a white bonnet or hackney carriages. |
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| They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. |
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| The hansom cab was designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York as a substantial improvement on the old hackney carriages. |
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| These soon replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire. |
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| Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. |
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