Business was slow in the first years, so he hired out his horse and hackney carriage as a taxicab for visitors.
During that same period the number of registered hackney carriages in Glasgow rose to one hundred and fifty.
Only licensed hackney carriages can pick up passengers on the street without pre-booking.
Horse-drawn hackney carriages began providing taxicab service in the early 17th century.
They are usually, but not always, black with a white bonnet or hackney carriages.
The word hack, meaning a horse-drawn cab, is short for hackney carriage.
Over 160 councils throughout Britain have already agreed to take testing on board for hackney carriage and private hire drivers.
This was very impractical for many passengers, who were forced to use hackney carriages to transfer from one train to another.
The wheels of the hackney carriage whirred into the tense silence around them.
Early horse-drawn buses were a combination of a hackney carriage and a stagecoach.