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A tilbury is a light, open, two-wheeled carriage, with or without a top, developed in the early 19th century by the London firm of Tilbury, coachbuilders in Mount Street, London [1] [2] (see also Stanhope (carriage)). A tilbury rig is little more than a single "tilbury seat"—the firm's characteristic spindle-backed seat with a curved padded ...
Tilbury: A light, open, two-wheeled carriage, with or without a top Training cart or training trap: a simple sprung or unsprung two-person modern cart for training a harness horse on smooth roads. Often made of steel with motorcycle wheels, and sometimes with adjustable shafts for different-sized horses.
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Stanhope designed several carriages, each bearing his name as was typical of the time period, and built by the London coachbuilder Tilbury. The first design, the Stanhope Gig built in the 1810s, was a gig with a storage boot under the seat, a crosswise seat for two, no hood or top, bent shafts reinforced with ironwork, and four springs.The next design was the Stanhope Buggy, an English buggy ...
The spider phaeton, of American origin and made for gentlemen drivers, [4] was a high and lightly constructed carriage with a covered seat in front and a footman's seat behind. [5] Fashionable phaetons used at horse shows included the Stanhope , typically having a high seat and closed back, [ 6 ] and the Tilbury , a two-wheeled carriage with an ...
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A modern gig Skeleton gig being driven tandem. A gig is a light, two-wheeled open carriage with large wheels, a forward facing seat, and shafts for a single horse. The gig's body is constructed above the shafts, and it is entered from step-irons hanging from the shaft in front of the wheels.