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.
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).
outside
York Railway Station
1920
This photograph from 1986
shows driver
Ken Minskip stood next to one of Philip Venn's FX4's. (Plate21)
They are sat outside the cabin,
inside the Station portico,
which is still in use today.
wait on the Taxi Rank
outside the
Assembley Rooms in Blake Street, York
in
1891.
with full
Kit Kat livery
pictured in The Mount , York (1995).
wait on St Sampsons Square
Taxi Rank in 1962
of
Exhibition Square, York.
Showing the cabman's shelter
and a
Horse drawn Hackney Carriage.
Artist unknown.
The floor above this shop later became the home of Streamline Taxis for many years
before their move to Piccadilly.
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.
For many years
these premises had been a Fish and Chip shop.
shortly after it opened in 1991.
It shows what was
York's first computerised dispatch system
designed and programmed by Peter Wheatley.
Ace Sugar (right) with his 15 year service mug watched by
Senior Operator Ray Whichello (left)
and
Office Manager Graham Phillips (1988)
Hackney Driver Les Cooper
with his Austin FX3
in
Cleveland Way, Huntington.
1983
Ace Taxis Waiting Room/Arcade
with fruit machines and videos
at
136 Micklegate
More money taken from machines than drivers subs!
October 2014
Ace Nicky in Fiat Scudo Plate 160
Winner of the
Most Hansom Driver Award 2013/2014
March 1909
A mixture of horse drawn taxis and
motor taxis wait outside York Station
The last horse drawn cab was used in York in 1937
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