Hackney Bros Body Co.-Photo
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Hackney Bros Body Co.-Photo
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 04:38 am:
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 04:40 am:
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 04:41 am:
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 04:43 am:
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 04:45 am:
Obviously the bodies are not on Ford chassis but I bet they could have been adapted.
Herb
By Aaron Griffey, Hayward Ca. on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 01:56 pm:Do you think the term 'hack' had anything to do with so many vehicles with Hackney bodies?
By Herb Iffrig on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 02:34 pm:That is a good assumption but I don't know.
Herb
By William L Vanderburg on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 06:18 pm:Most likely comes from "hackney carriage" (a carriage for hire) a French term, which comes from the term Hackney or haquenee being a common horse for female riders. There was also a section of London named Hackney.
The first documented hackney carriage ran in about 1621