The First Taxicab ...One night in New York, around 1906, a businessman called Harry N. Allen got on a cab and traveled for several kilometers. The cab driver took him 5 dollars – which was enough for an expensive suit. Angry about that Allen founded the first taxi company in New York in 1907. He managed to make a capital of 3 million dollars and imported from France 6-cylinder automobiles "‘Darracq" (according to the statistics from that time in 1902 there were 17 million horses and 230 thousand automobiles. In a fortnight, the streets of the big cities were fertilized by 1000 tones of horse waste and 226 000 liters of urine. The environmental problems were very serious even then.)
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