Hvactech19
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- Oct 28, 2019
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- Predator 3, AT MAX, EQUINOX 800
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- All Treasure Hunting
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
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Very cool finds with an awesome badge. CongratulationsView attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!! Makes it so much more cool with a place stamped in it😁View attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
badges are so very cool to find good dig there!View attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
Congratulations on your nice recoveriesView attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
From what I gathered on the net, Your Hackney Driver tag is a tag that a car for hire would have upon being registered.View attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
wondering if in 1929 during the great depression if rich folk had to hire private muscle to drive them around and protect them from looters and highwaymenFrom what I gathered on the net, Your Hackney Driver tag is a tag that a car for hire would have upon being registered.
There are also taxi cab tags that are similar, but not that early. Cool Find!!!
Killer badge, can't wait to see more info on that...View attachment 2045940
Would love any information on the badge, haven’t been out in months
From what I gathered on the net, Your Hackney Driver tag is a tag that a car for hire would have upon being registered.
There are also taxi cab tags that are similar, but not that early. Cool Find!!!
wondering if in 1929 during the great depression if rich folk had to hire private muscle to drive them around and protect them from looters and highwaymen
The taco’d picture is of a flat button, not a coin. I should have been more descriptive.Liking the badge it's a real nice keeper.
The coppers and buckle are also very nice recoveries.
Your pictures 1&2 shows the two different coppers, but the 3rd pic. of the finds has a taco'd copper, and not the 1st photo copper?
I don't see many taco'd flat buttons, they usually are broken. Probably too brittle/thin is the reason.The taco’d picture is of a flat button, not a coin. I should have been more descriptive.
very interesting thank you!It's a cool badge but, as Digger RJ says, its a license to operate a general hire vehicle registered with the city.
Doctor Edward Miles has a great website for identification of US chauffeur badges etc, listed by state, but unfortunately doesn’t provide any history. At the link below, he illustrates the Worcester Hackney Driver badges in use between 1918-1942:
http://www.chauffeurbadges.com/85.html
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The term “Hackney” in modern times probably originates from the London Borough of Hackney and a “Hackney Carriage” was originally a small two-horse enclosed carriage available for hire and capable of carrying four passengers. London was the first to introduce legislation to regulate their operation, with the first licences issued in 1662.
London’s iconic “Black Cabs” (now also operating in other liveries) are regulated as “Hackney Carriages” and, until the 1960s, despite the absence of any horses the regulations still required them to carry a bale of hay in the boot (trunk).
I don’t know if the same distinction applies (or applied) in the US but, over here in modern times, a Hackney license differs from other types of taxi licensing in that it permits a limited number of approved taxis to operate from the on-street ranks provided by a city or borough (and at airports etc) and allows them to be hailed in the street, as well as on demand or by pre-booking. Other taxi types (in unlimited numbers) are referred to as “private hire” (minicabs, Uber etc) and are only permitted to operate from their own premises or by request to pick up from a given location (whether on demand or by pre-booking).