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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.
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
One-horse shay: a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. Outside car: another name for jaunting car; Phaeton: a light-weight horse-drawn open carriage (usually with two seats); or an early-nineteenth-century sports car; A mid-19th-century engraving of a Phaeton, from a carriage builder's catalog
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.
A true chaise is an open two-wheeled carriage with a bench seat for two passengers drawn by one or two horses. Given two more wheels it would have been, if the name had been used then, a phaeton. A phaeton was for the owner to drive and generally drawn by one or two horses. A four-wheeled chaise would be drawn by at least four horses. [2]
The company began business in 1876 in Cicero, New York, as H. A. Moyer Carriage Company. As the era of the horse-drawn carriage came to an end, Moyer switched assembly to motor vehicles, although he continued to produce carriages. [2] [1] Moyer built large cars in the luxury $2,000 to $3,000 (equivalent to $98,100 in 2023) range.
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 ...
A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. Its body provides seats for four passengers, two back-seat passengers vis-à-vis two behind the coachman's high box-seat.