TAXIS TO AIRPORTS FROM YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE
GALLERY 2
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It's 1956 outside Fleetways Office
in Queen Street
when
Hackney Drivers looked smart and wore caps. Pictured are shareholders
Percy Lightowler,Geoff Hargreaves,
Bernard Fletcher,Don Lancaster
and
Howard Johnson.
This Sign,
pointing the way to Fleetways first office
in the
Odeon shops in Blossom Street, York,
dates from around 1952.
It is still in position today (2011).
The Taxi Rank
outside
York Railway Station
1920
Ace Taxis at the front of the rank in the Station.
This photograph from 1986
shows driver
Ken Minskip stood next to one of Philip Venn's FX4's. (Plate21)
Station Taxi Drivers pose for a group photo in 1919.
They are sat outside the cabin,
inside the Station portico,
which is still in use today.
Horse Drawn Hackney Carriages
wait on the Taxi Rank
outside the
Assembley Rooms in Blake Street, York
in
1891.
York FX4 Hackney
with full
Kit Kat livery
pictured in The Mount , York (1995).
FX3 and an FX4 Taxis
wait on St Sampsons Square
Taxi Rank in 1962
A rare colour painting from 1899
of
Exhibition Square, York.
Showing the cabman's shelter
and a
Horse drawn Hackney Carriage.
Artist unknown.
A Taxi waits outside No.1 Bootham, the office of Hornshaw's Taxi service, in 1947.
The floor above this shop later became the home of Streamline Taxis for many years
before their move to Piccadilly.
Exhibition Square
this time from 1900,
it shows horse drawn cabs waiting on the rank.
At this time there was a licence condition saying that Hackney proprietors had to live within 7 miles of the Minster.
This was to save the horses becoming exhausted before they started work.
Incredibly York Council refused to remove this rule when Motor Cars were introduced, and it wasn't until Peter Wheatley appealed this rule in 1983,
and won, in York Crown Court,
that York Council reluctantly had to remove it.
Yorcab Taxi Office in Leeman Road 2000.
For many years
these premises had been a Fish and Chip shop.
Inside the Yorcab Taxi Office
shortly after it opened in 1991.
It shows what was
York's first computerised dispatch system
designed and programmed by Peter Wheatley.
All Photograph's on this page (Gallery 2)
have been kindly loaned
by
Peter Wheatley.
None of the Photographs in Gallery 2 may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Peter Wheatley or Paradise Images York
Copyright © 2011 Peter Wheatley. All rights reserved.
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