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| The Vernon Lamb Archive, Cycles & Cars |
| A Unique Photographic Record of Matlock & District, 1910-1915, and World War One Soldiers |
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| Place: | Matlock |
| Property / Street / Road: | Rutland Street |
| Date: | 1910 - 1914 |
| Description/Historical Information: | Four taxis, with drivers, outside Hand's Garage behind the Gate Inn at the corner of Smedley Street
and Rutland Street. They had racks for luggage on the top of each vehicle [also see VLA4945 and
VLA4952]. On the left is a Minerva of circa 1907. Although it had no number plate, its license number (-1577) was painted on the radiator. The three taxis on the right are all 1909-10 Belsize landaulettes. Hodgkinsons of Matlock were to auction two of them in 1920 ("Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal", 19 March 1920), alongside a 30 seater charabanc. They were 20 h.p., with lamps etc and both were in perfect running order. The drivers were all smartly dressed in great coats and caps, though the caps were not all the same. The lines in the road are tram lines. Trams would pass each other on the Smedley Street junction when they were on their way down the hill to Crown Square or up the hill to just below Rockside on Wellington Street. |
| Further information elsewhere on this site: |
See: Matlock: Hand's Garage, Crown Square Matlock: Bank Road & the Steep-Gradient Tramway |
| Image Reference: | VLA4938 |
| Copyright: | © The Vernon Lamb Archive and Robert White. See About the Archive and About Vernon Lamb, Photographer. |