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Operators of minicabs have long been pushing for the use of bus lanes, which are restricted to buses and hackney carriages.
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However, council licensing of taxis - both hackney carriages and private minicabs - requires drivers to produce an up-to-date enhanced criminal record check.
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This was very impractical for many passengers, who were forced to use hackney carriages to transfer from one train to another.
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To get about, the 300 licensed sedan-chairs were replaced by hackney carriages.
www.dailymail.co.uk
There's not many burgundy hackney carriages around.
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Formal complaints about hackney carriages refusing to pick up passengers who would have paid a smaller fare spiked last autumn.
www.walesonline.co.uk
The better-off used hackney carriages and sedan chairs to get to their destinations without getting filthy.
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Scenes include a hackney carriage journey, self-realisation, scornful glances in a mirror and wandering an old 1930s house.
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Incidentally, the chap who lent me the first bike is a licensed hackney carriage driver by trade...
londonist.com
Dark vehicles were previously deemed too similar to hackney carriages.
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