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Laurent Cars (28 May 1699 – 14 April 1771) was a French designer and engraver. He was born at Lyon , the son of Jean-François Cars , who took him when quite young to Paris, where it was not long before he distinguished himself.
SEAT 1200 Sport, 'Bocanegra', the first car to be wholly developed in SEAT's Martorell Technical centre. SEAT 850 Spyder, a cabriolet in SEAT's range. SEAT 132, the last SEAT rear wheel drive mid-size car, powered with Fiat and Mercedes-Benz diesel engines. 1400 A / 1400 B / 1400 C (1953–1963) 600 N / 600 D / 600 E / 600 L (1957–1973)
Jean-François moved to Paris at the beginning of the 18th century, followed by his younger brother, François. However, for nearly ten years, the brothers stayed active in both cities. [ 2 ] In Paris, Jean-François had had his shop at rue de la Savonnerie since 1702 yet his youngest son was born in Lyon in December 1704.
1955–1976 Citroën DS—aerodynamic design and innovative technology, awarded third place as Car of the 20th Century; 1959–2000 Mini—a radical and innovative small car that was manufactured for four decades; awarded second place as Car of the 20th Century; 1960-1990 Volkswagen Brasília; 1961–1975 Jaguar E-Type—a classic sports car design
In Vienna, landaus are called fiacres because they can be rented. A five-glass landau carriage in Geraz do Lima Carriage museum. A landau, drawn by a pair or four-in-hand, is one of several kinds of vis-à-vis, a social carriage with facing seats over a dropped footwell (illustration), which was perfected by the mid-19th century in the form of a swept base that flowed in a single curve.
French Army captain Cugnot was one of the first to successfully employ a device for converting the reciprocating motion of a steam piston into a rotary motion by means of a ratchet arrangement. A small version of his three-wheeled fardier à vapeur ("steam dray ") was made and used in 1769 (a fardier was a massively built two-wheeled horse ...
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Black berline. A Berlin or Berline carriage is a type of enclosed four-wheeled carriage with two interior bench seats facing one-another. [1] Initially noted for using two perch rails [a] and having the body suspended by leather straps called braces, [b] [3] [4]: 15 the term continued in use for many carriages even after the suspension system changed to steel springs.