Taxi

Harry Nathaniel Allen of The New York Taxicab Company, who imported the first 600 gas-powered [[New York City]] taxicabs from France in 1907, borrowed the word "taxicab" from London, where the word was in use by early 1907.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016187/1907-05-23/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1909&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=12&words=cabs+taxi&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=taxi+cab&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=|title=The National tribune (Page 2, Image 2)|access-date=16 May 2016|work=The National Tribune|date=23 May 1907}}</ref>

Harry Nathaniel Allen of The New York Taxicab Company, who imported the first 600 gas-powered [[New York City]] taxicabs from France in 1907, borrowed the word "taxicab" from London, where the word was in use by early 1907.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016187/1907-05-23/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1836&sort=date&date2=1909&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=12&words=cabs+taxi&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=taxi+cab&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=|title=The National tribune (Page 2, Image 2)|access-date=16 May 2016|work=The National Tribune|date=23 May 1907}}</ref>

A popular but erroneous account holds that the vehicles were named after Franz von Taxis from the house of [[Thurn and Taxis]], a 16th-century postmaster for [[Philip I of Castile|Philip of Burgundy]], and his nephew Johann Baptiste von Taxis, General Postmaster for the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Both instituted fast and reliable postal services (conveying letters, with some post routes transporting people) across Europe. Their surname derives from their 13th-century ancestor [[Omodeo Tasso]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greengrass |first1=Mark |title=Christendom destroyed: Europe 1517–1648 |date=2015 |publisher=Penguin Random House |pages=244–245 |isbn=9780141978529}}</ref>

A popular but erroneous account holds that the vehicles were named after Franz von Taxis from the house of [[House of Thurn und Taxis|Thurn and Taxis]], a 16th-century postmaster for [[Philip I of Castile|Philip of Burgundy]], and his nephew Johann Baptiste von Taxis, General Postmaster for the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Both instituted fast and reliable postal services (conveying letters, with some post routes transporting people) across Europe. Their surname derives from their 13th-century ancestor [[Omodeo Tasso]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greengrass |first1=Mark |title=Christendom destroyed: Europe 1517–1648 |date=2015 |publisher=Penguin Random House |pages=244–245 |isbn=9780141978529}}</ref>

==History==

==History==