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On 9 January 1880, the Northampton Street Tramways Company was founded at a meeting in London. It quickly gained parliamentary approval for a network of 7 lines to be built in Northampton. Jabez Spencer Balfour was the chairman of the company. The Vice-Chairman was W.J. Pierce (Mayor of Northampton 1880-81).
Hansom cab and driver in the 2004 movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, set in 1903 London A Hansom cab on Prince Consort Road, London, 1904 London Cabmen, 1877. The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York.
Once the electric services were ready, the horse drawn assets were quickly disposed of at auctions run by W.J. Pierce in Northampton. Seventy horses and 6 tramcars were sold on 29 July 1904. The remaining 15 horses and 8 tramcars which had been held over to work the Kingsthorpe section were sold at auction in August 1904.
Horse-drawn hackney services continue to operate in parts of the UK, for example in Cockington, Torquay. [19] The town of Windsor, Berkshire, is the last remaining UK town with a continuous lineage of horse-drawn hackney carriages, operated run by Windsor Carriages, the licence having been passed down from driver to driver since the 1830's. The ...
Fiacre: A form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. Resting coachmen at a Fiaker (fiacre) in Vienna; Fly: A horse-drawn public coach or delivery wagon, especially one let out for hire. Four-in-hand coach; Gharry: A horse-drawn cab especially used in India. Gig (carriage): A light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one ...
William Birch started running horse-drawn cabs in London in 1837. After his death in 1846 his widow, Elizabeth, took over the business and in 1847 extended it to include the running of omnibuses, operating a service between Pimlico and Mansion House. The company was divided between her two sons on her death in 1874.
The Carriage Association of America (CAA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the history and traditions of carriage driving, and the preservation and restoration of horse-drawn carriages and sleighs. It is headquartered at the Kentucky Horse Park along with its sister organization, the Carriage Museum of America (CMA).
50-51, Demicars built from the saloons of former horse cars in 1906. 52 built at Portswood in 1908, open upper deck. 81 built at Portswood in 1919, first with closed upper deck and longest tram in service. Sixty three other trams built at Portswood 1908–31; Twelve trams built at Portswood in 1931, known as the "Pullmans".