My dad drive a taxi cab when I was a kid
It's quite a noble profession, conveying passengers between locations of their choice all day, very useful for people too.
I just remember the cab was yellow and dad always worked long hours in the city
That does seem typical of the profession. Taxicab is an interesting word, it's actually a combination of the words taximeter and cabriolet.
I never knew that what else do you know about a taxicab?
Well I know the taxicab system of New York began around 1907, when Harry Nathaniel Allen imported 600 taxicabs from France.
Oh wow is that where cabs originated?
from London, where the word was in use by early 1907. "Taxicab" is a compound word formed from contractions of "taximeter" and "cabriolet". "Taximeter" is an adaptation of the German word "taxameter", which was itself a variant of the earlier German word "Taxanom". "Taxe" (pronounced "tax-eh") is a German word meaning "tax", "charge", or "scale of charges". The Medieval Latin word "taxa" also means
too. A lot of the other cars had massive cabs, mine featured a much smaller cab and my car was the first to feature spring boxes for weight jacking. It was a rush to get it ready for Hednesford and I'd had no help from my dad until right at the last minute when I was struggling to get the car finished in time. We managed to get it down to Hednesford the day before for some practice but that didn't go too well as we had a misfire. We managed to cure