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Description: | This two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage pictured in c.1900 was used in the 19th century and at the start of the 20th. With its unusually high wheels, and low-slung body, it was called the Gondola of London by Benjamin Disraeli, the British Prime Minister. These cabs went through many improvements in design to perfect a perfectly balanced vehicle. Under certain conditions, it was possible to reach 17 miles an hour, which was almost as fast as the motor engine that superseded them.
The motor vehicle was to prove unstoppable in its advance, however, and by 1905 both hansom and Growler (four-wheeled) cabs were disappearing at the rate of 600 per year. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1898 - 1905 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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