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Cocher et sergent de ville (une Contravention)

Source:
postcards.delcampe.net (Item no. 15602622). Click here to view source.

Les Femmes Cocher / 138

A Cocher Miscellany / 5

Picture (left): Cab Driver and Police Sergeant: A Traffic Ticket.

Another unusual street scene. The photographer has caught a police sergeant writing out a traffic ticket against a cab driver and the camera has attracted a quartet of sidewalk superintendents who are making their bid for immortality.

The cab does not seem to have a meter, although it may be mounted on the dashboard which is out of sight in this picture. The cab is enclosed and the sign on the driver's seat advertises that it is heated ("chauffée"). The tires are not pneumatic but they may be solid rubber; they look a bit too thick to be steel tires.

This rather grainy photo is a modern reproduction of an old postcard.