In the late 1880s, on the heels of the city’s growth owing to the cotton boom, launch of railways and opening of Suez Canal, the city administration had begun building new municipal administration headquarters.
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A transport department official said the last Premier Padmini was registered as a black-and-yellow taxi at the Tardeo RTO, which has jurisdiction over the island city of Mumbai, on October 29, 2003.
For decades, if one had to conjure up a picture of Mumbai, the imagery would be incomplete without the city's Premier Padmini' taxis. For, the public carriers, fondly called kaali-peeli', were more than just a mode of transport.