hansom cab
Horse-drawn taxi
A hansom cab is a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the driver seated behind and above the enclosed passenger compartment.
Popular in Victorian-era cities before automobiles, it offered privacy and maneuverability through crowded streets.
The design placed passengers in front, giving them an unobstructed view.
Often shortened to hansom: He hailed a hansom on Baker Street.
- horse and carriageEquine-drawn wheeled transport
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- VictorianOf a prim era
- coachmanHorse-drawn carriage operator
- LondonEngland's capital city
London fog · Baker Street · hackney · wheels · clatter · foggy · gaslight · gas lamp · Sherlock · cobblestones · cobblestone streets · driver · fare · hail · trot · reins · whip · leather
- animal powerhorse and buggy, ox cart, dog sled, mule train, camel caravan
- Hired Transporttaxi, taxicab, limo, limousine, black car
- Horse-drawn transportcarriages, wagons, coaches, buggies, carts
- Victorian LondonLondon, Thames, Big Ben, Westminster, East End
- vintage travelsteamship, steamer trunk, railway station, train station, sleeping car
- carriagescarriage, buggy, phaeton, barouche, brougham
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Vehicle requiring no human pilot
Uber · autonomous vehicle · Tesla · rideshare · automobile
hansom cabomnibus
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stagecoach · double-decker bus · passenger train · streetcar · trolley