captain cab wrote:
toots wrote:
you should have said then there wouldn't have been any misunderstanding from the country folk
ahh...our retarded country brethren
CC
you said CARS....
the post was about "Charabangs"
no fecker mentioned taxis..........
sorry, Hackney Carriages (athough there is no connection with the borough of hackney of course), though there IS with "carriages"...
The name 'hackney' is an anglicized derivative of French haquenée—a horse of medium size recommended for lady riders. The first documented 'hackney coach'—the forerunner of the more generic 'hackney carriage'—operated in London in 1621.
"An Ordinance for the Regulation of Hackney-Coachmen in London and the places adjacent" was approved by Parliament in 1654, to remedy what it described as the "many Inconveniences [that] do daily arise by reason of the late increase and great irregularity of Hackney Coaches and Hackney Coachmen in London, Westminster and the places thereabouts".[3] The first hackney-carriage licences date from 1662, and applied literally to horse-drawn carriages, later modernised as hansom cabs (1834), that operated as vehicles for hire. There was a distinction between a general hackney carriage and a hackney coach, a hireable vehicle with specifically four wheels, two horses and six seats, and driven by a jarvey (also spelled jarvie).
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