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Chapter V
Cab show at Alexandra Palace—Forder's cab—The strike of 1894—Cabmen become organ-grinders— The Asquith award—Boycotting the railway stations—The "Bilking Act"
On October 4, 1875, a Cab and Cab-Horse Show was opened at the Alexandra Palace, and attracted a large number of people to Muswell Hill. The first prize for the most convenient and best appointed hansom cab was awarded to Messrs. Forder, who also exhibited one of the same type which they had built for the Prince of Wales. Two years previously, a cab built by this firm had been awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Arts, and this identical hansom won at the Alexandra Palace the second prize for vehicles which had been at work for not less than six months. Forder's cab had been working in the London streets for two years.
In the class for horses which had been at cab work for not less than eight years, during which
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