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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.
A Flint Wagon Works carriage c.1908. Their business became the second of Flint's "Big Three" wagon builders following William A. Paterson's founded by Paterson in 1869. The third new business was founded in the mid 1880s, William C. Durant's Flint Road Cart Company later renamed Durant-Dort Carriage Company. [3]
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
Working Drawings of Horse-drawn Vehicles: From the collection of the Carriage Museum of America. Carriage Museum of America. 1998. ISBN 9781880499061. World on Wheels: Studies in the Manufacture, History, Use, Conservation, and Restoration of Horse-drawn Vehicles. Carriage Association of America. 2009. OCLC 879573785.
These were designed to be pulled by a pair of horses. In 1619 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham introduced the coach drawn by six horses. [6] A coach with four horses is a coach-and-four. [7]: 97 [8] A coach together with the horses, harness and attendants is a turnout. [7]: 286 [9] The bodies of early coaches were hung on leather straps.
Hansom cab and driver in the 2004 movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, set in 1903 London Hansom cab, London, 1904 London Cabmen, 1877. The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York.
Historically, a carryall was a type of carriage used in the United States in the 19th century. It is a light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually drawn by a single horse and with seats for four or more passengers. [1] The word is derived by folk etymology from the French cariole. [2]
The Dort Motor Car Company of Flint, Michigan, built automobiles from 1915 to 1924. The company was founded by Josiah Dallas Dort as a spinoff from the Durant-Dort Carriage Company , and produced vehicles at Durant-Dort Factory One until its dissolution.