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Hearse: The horse-drawn version of a modern hearse. Herdic: A specific type of horse-drawn carriage, used as an omnibus. Irish jaunting car, or outside car (1890–1900) Jaunting car: a sprung cart in which passengers sat back to back with their feet outboard of the wheels. Karozzin: a traditional Maltese carriage drawn by one horse or a pair
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.
They were drawn by 12 men instead of horses probably as a result of the small number of horses in Dahomey. [12] In the 19th century the name coach was used for U.S. railway carriages, [13] and in the 20th century to motor coaches. See John Taylor (poet) for a very adverse opinion of the arrival of horse drawn coaches in England. Example of coaches
The early horse-drawn hearses were horse-drawn carriages that had fully functional landau bars to open and close the fabric roof. [15] As automobile-based hearses became popular, they "borrowed the landau bar flourish as an homage and an attempt to add a touch of Old-World class."
He had two horse-drawn hearses and “a variety of wood and metallic coffins.” ... The property reverted to them after Blackwell’s death, however.About a month after Klee’s death The Gleaner ...
Gala carriages (imperial coaches, coronation carriages, gala lines, carousel carriages, hearses) Everyday cars (city car, touring car) Recreational vehicles (garden carts, self-carriage carts, hunting vehicles, children's carriages) Commercial vehicles (horse-drawn carriages, farm carriages, fire-fighting vehicles) Sledge; Sedan chairs ...
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
A brougham [a] is a 19th century four-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse. It was named after the politician and jurist Lord Brougham , who had this type of carriage built to his specification by London coachbuilder Robinson & Cook in 1838.