Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hansom

(A). A light two-wheeled cab, in which the driver sits behind the vehicle, and communicates with the passenger through a trap-door in the roof. Invented by Aloysius Hansom of York (1803-1882). Hansom was by trade an architect at Birmingham and at Hinckley in Leicestershire.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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