Three Wheel Taxi Built Like Hansom Cab (Jul, 1931)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1931
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1931
| Buy on Ebay
Three Wheel Taxi Built Like Hansom Cab
THE last word in comfort and convenience for taxi passengers, particularly passengers loaded down with bundles from a shopping tour, is provided by a unique taxi now being designed by automotive engineers. With this car, the passenger can step from the curb right into the tonneau without inconvenient squirming and stooping, as in the ordinary taxi. The driver sits in the rear, like the driver of a hansom, from where he controls the door on the front of the car and operates the steering wheel.
The car is provided with only three wheels.
The driver sits in the open in the weather. Looks Dickensian to me.
Rick
Comment by rick — August 31, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
Almost looks like a Zamboni !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboni
Comment by Rick Auricchio — August 31, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
Also, if he bashes into anything, she’s going to be taking the brunt of the injury. There is a bumper, but because it has to be at curb level it’s much lower down than those on an ordinary vehicle. A regular car would just drive over it and join her in the cabin.
Comment by Stephen — September 1, 2009 @ 5:44 am
Probably more expensive than a used cop car, too.
Comment by nlpnt — September 4, 2009 @ 8:37 pm
“Soylent Green is PEOPLE!”
Comment by Harry — September 25, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Illustration as opposed to photograph = none ever existed.
No roof over the driver?
Maybe it’s for use inside the dmed cties
of the 21st century.
Comment by jayessell — September 25, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
“domed” not “doomed”.
Comment by jayessell — September 25, 2009 @ 4:18 pm