Check Out How the City's Taxis Have Changed Throughout History

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G.H. Brodie, Assistant to the President of Packard Motor Car Co.; Sam Abramson, President of Yale Taxi Co. in New York; and Robert King, President of Packard Federal Corp. (left to right), pictured with the first postwar taxi, in 1946. One of its features was fitting five forward-facing passengers without the usual "jump seats."

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