The Taxi Cab

The Taxi cab has been with us a long time. What was the very first taxi cab company? The first cab company, the Electric Carriage and Wagon Company, operated in New York City as early as 1897 employing twelve electric hansoms. There was also the Columbia Electric Company.

This was that time between the horse and the automobile. Believe it or not there were a good number of people who preferred the horse. The Columbia Hansom taxi cab was designed with two motors at the rear of the vehicle and could carry four passengers. The cab could carry four passengers. The problems with the Columbia cab were the batteries which obviously needed constant charging.  The automobile would finally begin to take shape in a usable form right at the turn of the century. In fact, a good number of the early car makers and auto experimenters were involved in the carriage building business.

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