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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]
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
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
A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated and able to hold four passengers, surreys had a variety of tops that included a rigid, fringed canopy, parasol, and extension. [ 1 ]
A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden bows (also called hoops or tilts) and lashed to the body of the wagon.
Apr. 8—Motorists driving through downtown Decatur might do a double take at a scene out of the late 1800s or early 1900s. A horse-drawn carriage could be traveling along streets such as Bank ...
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.