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2. Coach (carriage) - Wikipedia

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   A coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside.

3. Thrupp & Maberly - Wikipedia

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   George Athelstane Thrupp (1822–1905) [note 4] became company head and a leader of his craft known internationally within it. He was a founder of the Coach-makers' Benevolent Institution and helped form the Institute of British Carriage Manufacturers and the technical schools for coach artisans which were taken over by the Regent Street Polytechnic.

4. Diamond Jubilee State Coach - Wikipedia

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   Diamond Jubilee State Coach The Diamond Jubilee State Coach conveyed King Charles III and Queen Camilla to their Coronation on 6 May 2023.. The Diamond Jubilee State Coach [1] (initially known as the State Coach Britannia) is an enclosed, six-horse-drawn carriage that was made to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, but completion was delayed for nearly eight years. [2]

5. Carriage - Wikipedia

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   Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...

6. Gold State Coach - Wikipedia

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   The Gold State Coach in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace. The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight-horse-drawn carriage used by the British royal family.Commissioned in 1760 by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings for King George III, and designed by Sir William Chambers, it was built in the London workshops of Samuel Butler.

7. British Rail coach type codes - Wikipedia

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   British Railways coach designations were a series of letter-codes used to identify different types of coaches, both passenger carrying and non-passenger carrying stock (NPCS). The code was generally painted on the end of the coach but non-gangwayed stock had the code painted on the side. [1] They have been superseded by TOPS design codes. [2]

8. William Felton (coachmaker) - Wikipedia

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   William Felton was a London coachmaker from 36 Leather Lane in Holborn, and 254 Oxford Street near Grosvenor Square, and noted for his 1796 illustrated two-volume book, A Treatise on Carriages; comprehending Coaches, Chariots, Phaetons, Curricles, Gigs, Whiskies, &c Together with their Proper Harness in which the Fair Prices of Every Article are Accurately Stated.

9. Speaker's State Coach - Wikipedia

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   Built in 1698, this state coach is one of the oldest in Europe, and is oldest of the three gilded state coaches of the UK — the others are the Lord Mayor of London's State Coach (1757) and the Gold State Coach (1762). The coach weighs 2.7 tonnes and has no brakes. [1] [2] The coach is 6.44 metres long, 2m wide, and 2.9m high. [3]