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6 December 1897, the first motorised fleet of London cabs took to the streets from their Vauxhall garage.
Bersey taxis, named after its inventor, Walter Bersey & powered by battery, internal-combustion engine first came on the taxi scene in the early 1900s

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Workmen salvage masonry from the rubble of a blitzed church in London in 1950 in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral. During the war, prime minister Winston Churchill had insisted St Paul's should be protected at all costs to help boost morale