London’s First Taxi Driver
Senior taxi-cab driver in and the first licensed driver of a petrolI driven vehicle, Mr James Michael Howe, aged 65, of Hammersmith, has been presented with a badge, specially ! niado for him on tho instructions of 1 Lord Trenchard, Chief Commissioner of tho Metropolitan Police. “I have been a licensed driver for i 49 years,” Mr Howe said in an interview. “I sold my cabs and horses in 1894, and when the motor-cabs camo along in 1903 I drove tho first one in London, mine being the only one plying for a few months. As a hansom cab driver I drove Mr Loopold Rothschild for 14 years.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 9
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111London’s First Taxi Driver Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 9
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