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  Carriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the early 19th century one's choice of carriage was only in part based on practicality and performance; it was also a status statement and subject to changing fashions.
The names of many have now been relegated to obscurity but some have been adopted to describe automotive car body styles: coupé, victoria, Brougham, landau and landaulet, cabriolet, (giving us our cab), phaeton, and limousine— all once denoted particular models of carriages.
In most European and English-speaking countries, show driving is a competitive equestrian sport.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carriage   (789 words)

  
 Coachbult.com - Derham
The bulk of Derham's early 1920s bodies were the more formal chauffeur-driven closed town cars and landaulets, but by the late twenties, they began to produce a larger number of sporty coupes and convertibles as well as a few open phaetons and an occasional roadster.
While most landaulets rear roofs were rarely lowered, the wheelchair bound owner of this one used it all the time.
Another pre-war Derham specialty was the collapsible cabriolet (or landaulet), with a fixed center section, one-piece windshield, a collapsible rear roof and a removable cover over the open chauffeur's compartment.
www.coachbuilt.com /bui/d/derham/derham.htm   (12330 words)

  
 Cadillac Terms and Definitions S-Z
The report published in "The Motor" (UK) on October 21, 1930 described that V16 landaulet as having extra-wide doors with private locks and center armrests to the front and back seats.
The landaulet has a fitted cabinet between the occasional seats, the companions are incorporated in the inlaid garnish rails and the silk blinds are concealed.
Waterhouse: of Webster, MA, (USA) Coach builder, responsible for at least one (perhaps the only) custom body on a Cadillac V-16 chassis in 1930; it was a town car landaulet with fully collapsible rear quarters and was commissioned by William Rhinelander Stewart..
www.car-nection.com /yann/Dbas_txt/Factt-z.htm   (5593 words)

  
 Bourse Introductory Data Base
Twenty-six photographs in all, comprising 23 of cars or chassis on linen, 1 laid in, and 2 of renderings of cars on linen.
Including two photos and one rendering of Speed Car, plus bizarre Torpedo Body (two views) ("This is not a standard car"), Limousine, Landaulet, and others.
Painting and specifications leaf from Studebaker catalogue also bound in, by dealer, and factory "record of distribution" of photos at front.
www.cohascodpc.com /Bourse_Introductory_2.html   (19055 words)

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