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A model poses as a horse cab driver in this postcard from the Femmes Cocher collection gathered by Norman Beattie. The series celebrates the role of women in the Paris taxi trade during the early 1900s.
Best collection of taxi-related documents
Taxi-Library is a non-commercial educational website serving the taxicab industry worldwide. It provides an extensive collection of documents and links relating to the taxi business, which is a private segment of municipal and rural transportation systems throughout the world.
Founded as Taxi-L in 1999 by former Winnipeg regulator Terry Smythe, Taxi-Library represents the contributions of many people including drivers, company managers, regulators, journalists, academics and family members.
To join an ongoing discussion of taxi news and issues, please visit the homepage of Taxi-List, an email group of about 800 participants moderated by Karl Weiszhaar of Denver. See The Taxi News for a roundup of recent news items.
Your host on the Taxi-Library website, Charles Rathbone. Click this mail link to send him an email.
Contact
Taxi-Library is maintained by Charles Rathbone, who began working as a taxicab driver in San Francisco in 1975. He also worked as a labor and community organizer. He operated a cab as a single-shift independent owner-driver, and as an employer with his own one-cab microfleet. He currently works as an assistant manager at a fleet with 200 cabs.
During breaks from his taxi work, Charles earned a BA degree in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley, and satisfied a wanderlust that took him to 40 states and 33 countries.
To email Charles, click on this mail link.
Document formats
If your computer does not recognize the format of a file on Taxi-Library, one of these freely available programs may provide a solution.
- Open Office and NeoOffice are suites of programs that should open any file on Taxi-Library.
- Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and Sumatra Viewer display PDF documents.
- Microsoft offers free viewers for Word, Excel and Power Point documents.
- IrfanView displays photos, pictures and other graphics.
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