Inspiring Capital Taxis at Edinburgh Cavalcade

The four fully liveried taxis boast interesting facts that show how Edinburgh has made a distinctive mark on the world yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

 

The red cab focuses on architecture, stating how self-taught architect George Meikle Kemp designed the Scott Monument in 1840-1846.   The creative vision of architects Enric Miralles and RMJM Scotland, The Scottish Parliament, which opened on the 4 October 2004, also features.

 

The blue and purple cabs reflect Edinburgh’s creative, imaginative and vibrant cultural and inventive successes. 

 

One of Edinburgh’s most well known writers and characters features on the side of the purple literary cab.  Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 at 8 Howard Place in Edinburgh and wrote his most famous novel in 1886 - the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

 

The Brand logo features the Edinburgh lines of influence and in the area of invention the Edinburgh City Region has indeed been a world influencer.   Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh. He patented the telephone in 1876 and now there are more than 500 million of them spanning the globe. He revolutionised world communications.

 

The orange cab is reflective of the scientific influence of Edinburgh and features Charles Darwin, who studied medicine at Edinburgh University 1825-1827 and proposed the theory of evolution. This cab states how Edinburgh physician, James Simpson, pioneered and first used anaesthetics in 1847.  More recently the lines of Edinburgh’s influence can be seen in the area of modern genetics with Dolly the Sheep, being cloned and born 5th July 1996, at the Roslin Institute, in Midlothian.

 

Edinburgh City Region Brand balloons, beads and goodies were given out en route and over 3000 participants from Festivals, Fringe shows, Community Groups, Commercial floats and bands from all over the world with over 150,000 spectators watched this fantastic event and enjoyed the Sunday sunshine.