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A hearse (/ h ɜːr s /) is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin to a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
The state hearse is a vehicle of the Royal Mews used for funerals of the British royal family. Based on a Jaguar XJ model, it was designed by the Royal Household and Jaguar Land Rover with the input of and approval from Elizabeth II and converted by UK-based coachbuilders Premiere Sheet Metal, while Wilcox Limousines created the interior ...
A combination car was a vehicle that could serve either as a hearse or as an ambulance, [1] and had the capability of being swapped between those roles without much difficulty. [2] This hybrid usage of the cars reflects an era when funeral homes offered emergency ambulance service in addition to their primary trade, especially in smaller towns ...
Funeral homes that transport the deceased in hearses and other vehicles are not exempt and have to pay the toll if they enter Manhattan below 60th Street, just like other motorists. The $9 ...
People get out of their cars to watch as the hearse carrying the the Queen’s coffin (Victoria Jones/PA) ... The Duke of Edinburgh designed his own custom-built Land Rover hearse for his funeral ...
This is usually more economical for the funeral home when a new hearse is purchased, as opposed to purchasing a second new vehicle. The first call vehicle is sometimes operated by an outside company that has contracts with various mortuaries and funeral homes, rather than by the funeral homes. In the UK, these are known as private ambulances. [1]
Since the mid-1940s, hearses in the United States commonly feature chrome bow-shaped landau bars on the simulated leather-covered rear roof sides. [16] [17] The landau bars have become a symbol of a funeral car to the point that hearse manufacturers continue to add them to "limousines as a matter of tradition." [15]
Funeral procession of Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil with a horse-drawn hearse in Rio de Janeiro, 1826. Traditional funeral procession, Těchanov, Czechoslovakia, 1965 Christian funeral procession by car in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, 2009