Word: hackmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...
...pages in the Taxi Weekly are a power for good conduct among Manhattan cabbies, tabulating penalties meted out in the city's special Hack Bureau to perpetrators of prevalent hackmen's peccadillos: driving "with the flag up" (metre not recording); taking indirect routes; smoking while carrying passengers; withholding receipts from employers; forgetting license badge; charging an Englishman who undervalued U. S. currency $14 for a $1.40 ride...