It was designed by Joseph Hansom inventor of the hansom cab. The original building was designed by Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab. Lily gets him to back off and flees, getting into a hansom cab. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a 2012 Australian television movie. Lucinda quickly gets to know Mr. Gilligan the hansom cab driver and Patrolman M'Gonegal. An Hansom cab then arrives and picks up Ayumi. When they discover who he is, Johnny departs and gets into a parked hansom cab. The "cab" of taxi-cab or "hansom cab" is a shortening of "cabriolet". Recognising Merrick, Treves took him in a hansom cab to the London Hospital. Joseph Hansom built the first Hansom cab in Hinckley in 1835.