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What Did We Hail Pre Taxi?
Before the invention of the car, the practice of vehicles for public hire
was in place. In 1640, in Paris, Nicolas Sauvage offered horse-drawn carriages
and drivers for hire. In 1635, the Hackney Carriage Act was the first legislation
passed that controlled horse-drawn carriages for hire in England.
Taximeter
The name taxicab was taken from the word taximeter. The taximeter is the
instrument which measures the distance or time a vehicle travels, and allows
an accurate fare to be determined. The taximeter was invented by the German
inventor, Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891.
Daimler Victoria
Gottlieb Daimler built the world's first dedicated taxi in 1897 called the
Daimler Victoria. The taxi came equipped with the newly invented taxi meter.
On 16 June, 1897 the Daimler Victoria taxi was delivered to Friedrich Greiner,
a Stuttgart entrepreneur who started the world's first motorized taxi company.
First Taxi Accident
On September 13, 1899, the first American died in an car accident. That
car was a Taxi, there were about one hundred taxis operating on New York's
streets that year. Sixty-eight year-old Henry Bliss was helping a friend
from a street car when a taxi driver lost control and fatally hit Bliss.
Yellow Taxi
Taxi company owner, Harry Allen was the first person to have yellow taxis.
Allen painted his taxis yellow to stand out.
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