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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.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab received praise in works including A Companion to Crime Fiction, [2] A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945, [3] and A History of Victoria, [4] and was featured in the book Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories. [5] A parody version was published in 1888, and film adaptations were produced in 1911, 1915 and 1925.
Then, in 1834, the hansom cab was patented by Joseph Hansom: a jaunty single-horse, two-wheel carriage with a distinctive appearance, designed to carry passengers safely in an urban environment. The hansom cab quickly established itself as the standard two-wheel hackney carriage and remained in use into the 20th century. [13] London growler c. 1900
The Hansom cab was improved by subsequent modifications and exported worldwide to become a ubiquitous feature of the 19th-century street scene. In 1843 Hansom founded a new architectural journal known as The Builder , another venture which was to flourish through the century; renamed Building in 1966, it continues to this day.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a 2012 Australian television movie about the events surrounding the murder of Oliver Whyte whose body is discovered in a hansom cab in 19th century Melbourne. The investigation is conducted under the leadership of Detective Samuel Gorby, who soon arrests Brian Fitzgerald who had hoped to marry Whyte's betrothed ...
In London, Walter Bersey designed a fleet of such cabs and introduced them to the streets of London on 19 August 1897. [22] They were soon nicknamed 'Hummingbirds' due to the idiosyncratic humming noise they made. [11] In the same year in New York City, the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company began running 12 electric hansom cabs. [23]
Joseph Stanislaus Hansom FRIBA (1845–1931) was a British architect. He was the son and partner of the better-known Joseph Aloysius Hansom , inventor of the Hansom cab . [ 2 ] He trained with his father, becoming his partner in 1869, and taking over the family practice fully in 1880.
The Hansom Cab is a Grade II listed public house at 84–86 Earls Court Road, Kensington, London W8 6EG. It is on the corner with Pembroke Square. [1] A hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage, as illustrated on the pub's sign.