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.

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.