One of London’s few remaining hansom cabs made its last journey a few weeks ago. With its 76-year-old driver on the box it came into collision with a saloon motor car. The cab was cut in two. the horse had to be shot where it lav in the street, and the cabby, William Purkiss, died in hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 15
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57Page 15 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 15
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