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As a result, a phaeton was much lighter than the sturdier, weather-ready convertible. Since the body was entirely open, it was easy to add or remove an extra row of seating where space had been left in the original construction. A phaeton differs from a convertible in having no winding or sliding windows in the doors or the body. [6]
His dead body falls into the river Eridanus, and his sisters, the Heliades, cry tears of amber and are turned to black poplar as they mourn him. Phaethon's tale was commonly used to explain why uninhabitable lands on both sides of extremity (such as hot deserts and frozen wastelands) exist, and why certain peoples have darker complexions, while ...
Volkswagen Group W-12 engine as fitted in the Phaeton W12 Volkswagen Concept D at IAA 1999 in Frankfurt. The Volkswagen Phaeton ( / ˈ f eɪ t ən / FAY-tən) (Typ 3D) is a full-size sedan/saloon [4] manufactured by the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle.
The sporty Lord Lonsdale's yellow phaeton with a calash top, c. 1900 (Mossman Collection) Hooper's - royal coachbuilders - stylish design for a phaeton. A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a phaeton typically featured a minimal very ...
Phaeton body, a style of open carriage or automobile; Phaeton (carriage), a horse-drawn sporty open carriage; Volkswagen Phaeton, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen until 2016; Phaethon (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus; Double Phaeton, a Gräf & Stift luxury automobile c. 1910
Flutes: Daimler's traditional radiator grille topped by now-vestigial cooling fins adopted by 1905. The Daimler Company Limited (/ ˈ d eɪ m l ər / DAYM-lər), before 1910 known as the Daimler Motor Company Limited, was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H. J. Lawson in 1896, which set up its manufacturing base in Coventry.
Albert Lemaître's Type 7 Phaeton was the first petrol powered vehicle to finish, 3 minutes behind Jules-Albert, Comte de Dion on his steam powered tractor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1895, a Peugeot Type 7 driven by Paul Koechlin with Rubichon as a mechanic, won the Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race.
The first Royal car; "mail phaeton" body, purchased by the Prince of Wales in 1900. Another bought in 1900 with shooting brake body [note 2] [3] 9 [1] Before 1903 [note 1] straight-twin, 1804 cc 94 130 8 [1] Before 1903 [note 1] straight-four, 3054 cc 90 120 16/18 [1] Before 1903 [note 1] straight-four, 3308 cc 90 130 12 [1] Before 1903 [note 1]