21. Fergus Hume's international best-seller " Mystery of a Hansom Cab " was set in Gold Rush era Melbourne. 22. Hansom had recently completed work on Plymouth Cathedral, but is probably better known as the designer of Hansom Cabs . 23. A new approach was made from Mill Street Bridge to allow hansom cabs to collect and drop off passengers. 24. On 9 August 1901, Robert Hannah was injured while driving a hansom cab along Elizabeth Street in Sydney, Australia. 25. The architect of Lutterworth Town Hall was Joseph Hansom, who took out the first patent of the horse-drawn hansom cab . 26. "By this time last year we were up to a foot of snow, " said Kelly, a hansom cab driver. 27. As applied to the hansom cabs , the Renaults catered mainly for gentlemen of standing, including judges, barristers and other notables. 28. The Hansom cab was improved by subsequent modifications and exported worldwide to become a ubiquitous feature of the 19th-century street scene. 29. Coates died in London in 1848, aged about 76, after a Hansom cab hit him outside the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. 30. He died in 1895 from injuries received when knocked down by a hansom cab and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
