How many vehicles were there in Lisbon at the time of the earthquake?
Since the beginning of times – think of the Flintstones, for instance- vehicles have been a symbol of status and this still seems to be the case. Now at that time in Lisbon, in spite of the slopy and roughly paved streets, there were 300 coaches, 4.500 privately owned trolleys, 400 cabs for rent and several thousand individual handheld chairs for a population of around 200.000.
