hackney carriage in a sentence
Examples
- The children were taking part in a trip organized for the fourth year straight by the Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers, a British charitable group.
- The "'Metropolitan Conditions of Fitness for Taxis "'set out the requirements for vehicles that may be used as licensed Hackney carriage taxi cabs in London.
- Fifty Hackney Carriages were to be rolled out in full Gulf Air livery to promote the airline's flights from London Heathrow to Bahrain and beyond.
- In 1899, Charsley held the rank of inspector in the Hackney Carriage Department of the Birmingham police when he was appointed Chief Constable of Coventry.
- It replaced the hackney carriage as a vehicle for hire; with the introduction of clockwork mechanical taximeters to measure fares, the name became " taxicab ".
- Many components of its transport system, such as the double-decker bus, the Hackney Carriage black taxi and the London Underground, are internationally recognised symbols of London.
- Since the two governments had not agreed about how to build the station in Basel yet, the passengers were transported across the border with hackney carriages.
- The Cabmen's Shelter Fund was established in London in 1875 to run shelters for the drivers of hansom cabs and later hackney carriages ( and taxicabs ).
- At the privately owned Chelmsford railway station taxi rank, only the 116 Chelmsford Taxi Association affiliated hackney carriages are permitted to ply for hire at the station.
- All licensed hackney carriage taxis and private hire vehicles in Chelmsford will have a large rectangular council identification sticker with its licence number on the front doors.