About the projectThis project crowd-funding is intended to finance the 1st edition of TAXI - Portuguese Monograph (to be completed during the year 2014), namely production costs...
About the project
This project crowd-funding is intended to finance the 1st edition of TAXI - Portuguese Monograph (to be completed during the year 2014), namely production costs and promotion of the book, as well as part of research still to be done.
About the Book
This monograph introduces the theme of hire vehicles in a global perspective, and focuses on the development of this service in Portugal, highlighting the major events that constitute its history. With particular focus on the motorized vehicles who served throughout the XX century, major brands and models, through numerous photographic documents of the time, from the author's private collection and other sources.
[Approx. 23x29 cm - 250 pp]
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The history of car hire in Portugal is not chronologically very different from that of other countries. There are records of the emergence of horse-drawn hire vehicles during the seventeenth century in major European cities, and Lisbon was no exception. Until the advent of the automobile, various types of horse-drawn vehicles, some with alterations that allow better adaptation to the rental service were used; the most notable of these would be a taximeter, allowing to accurately calculate the fare, ending the need for further adjustment. The term, still used today, taxi-cab, comes precisely from the junction of the words taximeter and cabriolet, a vehicle widely used as voiture-de-place. The first motor cabs began working in Lisbon in 1907, but taximeters would only be mounted in motorized taxis around 1910.
