Taxicab; Club Car

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TAXICAB

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE (obituaries), 27 June 1965, pg. 24, col. 2:

_Harry Allen, the Man_
_Behind the Taxicab_
(...)  He was the man who started the taxicab industry in New York City.  He coined the name "taxicab" and copyrighted it.  He operated the first fleet of what street-corner loafer jeeringly called "smoke-wagons"--65 of them to start, 700 within a year.
(...)(Col. 3--ed.)
   He put together parts of the words "motorcab" and "taximetres" from a French company making meters for horse cabs, and came up with "taxicab."  He went to Washington to copyright it, then went back to France and bought 65 shiny, red taxicabs, 16-horsepower, four-cylinder Darracq cars of the landaulet type.
(...)(Col. 4--ed.)
   On Oct. 1, 1907, what the newspapers called "the new taximeter motor cabs" had their first public trial.

(So how come OED has "taxicab" earlier, in March 1907?--ed.)

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CLUB CAR

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 24 May 1965, pg. 18, col. 7:

   _Club Car Fills the Gap_
_Neither a Taxi_
_Nor a Limousine_
(...)  Club Cars are the month-old inspiration of Marvin Rozenzweig "to fill the gap betwwn limousine and taxi service."  They operate in Manhattan and Queens only (WE 7-2727).
   All hailing is done by telephone.  The meter runs only on time, not on time and mileage as in taxis.