HC Deb 19 October 1908 vol 194 c723
MR. B. S. STRAUS (Tower Hamlets, Mile End)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can give the number of taxi-motor cabs licensed on 30th September this year, and also the number of hansoms and four-wheelers licensed on the same date.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) On the 30th September the following were the numbers of the different kinds of licensed cabs:—

Motor cabs 2,273
Hansom cabs 5,095
Four-wheeled horse cabs 3,754
Total 11,122