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The victoria is an elegant style of doorless four-wheeled open carriage, drawn by one or two horses, based on the phaeton with the addition of a coachman's seat at the front, and with a retractable roof over the passenger bench. Named for Queen Victoria, [1] [2] it was possibly based on a phaeton made for George IV. [3]
The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight-horse-drawn carriage used by the British royal family. Commissioned in 1760 by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings for King George III, and designed by Sir William Chambers, it was built in the London workshops of Samuel Butler. It was commissioned for £7,562 (£3.54 million = US$4.188 ...
A five-glass landau carriage in Geraz do Lima Carriage museum. A landau, drawn by a pair or four-in-hand, is one of several kinds of vis-à-vis, a social carriage with facing seats over a dropped footwell (illustration), which was perfected by the mid-19th century in the form of a swept base that flowed in a single curve.
The United Kingdom's 1902 State Landau is a horse-drawn carriage with flexible leather hoods which drop.. It is a postilion landau, drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions, with no provision for a coachman.
A carriage arranged for postilion may have "à la Daumont" appended to its name. "Daumont" is a corruption of the French d'Aumont from the 8th Duke of Aumont who preferred this manner of travel. [2]: 121 [1]: 62 Early state coaches in England were drawn by cream-colored horses of Hanoverian blood.
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