Tourists in a vis-a-vis, Prague

The classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse-drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs (elliptical springs in the 19th century) or leather strapping for suspension, whether light, smart and fast or large and comfortable. Compare the public conveyances stagecoach, charabanc, and omnibus. Download high resolution version (500x760, 45 KB)Carriage in Prague Picture taken when i was traveling in Eastern-Europe. ... Download high resolution version (500x760, 45 KB)Carriage in Prague Picture taken when i was traveling in Eastern-Europe. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... A leaf spring is a simple form of spring, commonly used for the suspension in wheeled vehicles. ... The front suspension components of a Ford Model T. Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels. ... Buffalo soldiers guard a Concord style stagecoach somewhere in the American West, ca. ... A charabanc (pronounced sha-ra-bang) is a kind of open-topped bus common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ...

A vehicle that is not sprung is a wagon. An American buckboard or Conestoga wagon or "prairie schooner" was never taken for a carriage, but a waggonette was a pleasure vehicle, with lengthwise seats. A wagon (in old British English waggon) is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal such as a horse, mule or ox, which was used for transport of heavy goods in the past. ... The Conestoga Wagon is a heavy, broad-wheeled covered freight carrier used extensively during the United States Westward Expansion in the late 1700s and 1800s. ...

The word car meaning "wheeled vehicle," came from Norman French at the beginning of the 14th century; it was extended to cover automobile in 1896. A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

In British English a railway carriage (also called a coach) is a railroad car designed and equipped for conveying passengers. // Original meaning and etymology The original meaning of the term coach was: a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ...

In American English, a baby carriage is a wheeled conveyance for reclining infants (British English perambulator or pram), usually with a hood that can be adjusted to protect the baby from the sun. For transportation of a baby or toddler there are special vehicles, special car seats, and devices for carrying. ...

In some parts of New England, a carriage (or shopping carriage) is sometimes a shopping cart. The Flag of Plymouth Colony, also know as the First Flag of New England First Flag of New England, 1686-c. ... A shopping cart/trolley A shopping cart (also called a buggy, or a trolley in British English; sometimes referred to as a carriage or shopping carriage in the U.S. region of New England; also known as a bascart in some regions of the U.S.) is a cart supplied...

History of carriages

In the Middle Ages all travellers who were not walking rode, save the elderly and the infirm. A trip in an unsprung cart over unpaved roads was not lightly undertaken. Closed carriages began to be more widely used by the upper classes in the 16th century, and better sprung vehicles were developed in the 17th century. New lighter and more fashionably varied conveyances, with fanciful new names, began to compete with one another from the mid-18th century. Coachbuilders cooperated with carvers and gilders, painters and lacquerworkers, glazers and upholsterers to produce not just the family's state coach for weddings and funerals but light, smart fast comfortable vehicles for pleasure riding and display. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

In British and French coaches, the coachman drove from a raised coachbox at the front. In Spain the driver continued to ride one of the horses.

From the 1860s, few rich Europeans continued to use their posting coaches for long-distance travel: a first-class railway carriage was the faster modern alternative. Then, in the 1890s, just as automobiles came into use, "coaching" became an upper-class sport in Britain and American, where gentlemen would take the reins of the kinds of large vehicles of types generally driven by a professional coachman.

Types of horse-drawn carriages

In Vienna, rentable landaus called fiacres carry tourists around the old city.

An almost bewildering variety of horse-drawn carriages existed. Ingram's book lists 325 types with a short description of each. By the early C19 one's choice of carriage was only in part based on practicality and performance, it was also a statement status and subject to changing fashions. The types of carriage included the following: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1040, 1400 KB) A fiaker in front of Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux File links The following pages link to this file: Carriage ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1040, 1400 KB) A fiaker in front of Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux File links The following pages link to this file: Carriage ... A landau (named after the German city) is a coachbuilding term for a specific body style. ... Saint Fiacre (or Fiachra) was born in Ireland in the seventh century. ...

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. A barouche was a fashionable type of horse-drawn carriage in the 19th century. ... A Berlin (or Berline) carriage was a type of light, fast four-wheeled travelling carriage with a separate hooded seat at the rear. ... A brake, also known as a break, was a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the 19th century. ... A britzka or brichka is a type of horse-drawn carriage. ... 1915 Detroit Electric Brougham Invented by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a brougham was a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage of the 1800s. ... Buggy can refer to various types of carts: Buggy is a common name for the Sweepstakes Races, much like a sandhill derby, practiced at Carnegie Mellon University. ... Cab Short for cabriolet, a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and were the forerunners of modern taxicabs. ... Original meaning A cabriolet was a light, two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a folding calash top, seating two persons behind the drivers box. ... A barouche, also known as a calash or calèshe, was a fashionable type of horse-drawn carriage in the 19th century. ... A Cape cart was a two-wheeled four-seater carriage formerly used in South Africa. ... A cariole (also spelled carriole) was a type of carriage used in the 19th century. ... A carryall is a type of carriage used in the United States in the 19th century. ... A chaise (the French for chair, through a transference from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle) is a light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a movable hood or calash ; the post-chaise was the fast-travelling carriage of the 18th and early 19th centuries. ... A clarence was a type of carriage popular in the 19th century. ... // Original meaning and etymology The original meaning of the term coach was: a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. ... 1995 Buick Riviera coupé A coupé (from the French for cut) or coupe is a car body style with a close-coupled interior offering either two seats or 2+2 seating (space for two passengers up front and for two occasional passengers in the rear). ... A curricle was a smart light two wheeled chariot large enough for the driver and a passenger and— most unusual for a vehicle with a single axle—drawn by a carefully-matched pair. ... Dos-a-dos, from the French, literally back-to-back, is applied to: Books bound in pairs back-to-back, such as Ace doubles. ... The word drag has several meanings: In physics, drag is a combination of aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces which tends to reduce speed. ... Note: A cart may also be short for cartridge, particularly in the radio industry, where 8-track cartridges (and later CDs and zip drives) were used. ... Saint Fiacre (or Fiachra) was born in Ireland in the seventh century. ... Fly can refer to any of the following things: A fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. ... The four-in-hand knot is a method of tying a mans necktie. ... A Gig is a 2-wheeled cart to be pulled by a horse. ... In the United Kingdom, a hackney carriage is a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office in the London Metropolitan Area or by the local authority in other parts of England and Wales and the Scottish Executive in Scotland. ... Categories: Stub | Road transport ... The Irish jaunting car was a popular mode of transportation in 19th Century Dublin popularized by Valentine Vousden in a song by that name. ... A landau (named after the German city) is a coachbuilding term for a specific body style. ... Meadowbrook is the name, or part of the name, of several places in the United States: Meadowbrook, Alabama Meadowbrook, Wisconsin Meadowbrook Farm, Kentucky Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Phaeton or Phaethon may refer to many different things, all deriving ultimately from the mythological figure Phaëton: Phaëton in Greek Mythology is the Son of Helios, the Sun God. ... A chaise (the French for chair, through a transference from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle) is a light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a movable hood or calash; the post-chaise was the fast-travelling carriage of the 18th and early 19th centuries. ... Look up Rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In Norse mythology, see Ríg. ... Buffalo soldiers guard a Concord style stagecoach somewhere in the American West, ca. ... A sulky is a lightweight two-wheeled racing cart that is used in most forms of harness racing in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, including both trotting and pacing races. ... Surrey is the name of several places: Canada: Surrey, British Columbia United Kingdom: Surrey, England United States of America: Surrey, North Dakota Surrey, Maine Surrey is also shorthand for Surrey County Cricket Club or the University of Surrey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... Look up Vis-à-vis on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Vis-à-vis from the French language, literally face to face, is a type of carriage where the occupants face each other. ... The callsign WHIM was assigned to a radio station in Apopka, Florida in 1998. ... Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. ... 1915 Detroit Electric Brougham Invented by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a brougham was a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage of the 1800s. ... A landau (named after the German city) is a coachbuilding term for a specific body style. ... A landau (named after the German city) is a coachbuilding term for a specific body style. ... Cab Short for cabriolet, a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and were the forerunners of modern taxicabs. ... Phaeton or Phaethon may refer to many different things, all deriving ultimately from the mythological figure Phaëton: Phaëton in Greek Mythology is the Son of Helios, the Sun God. ... 2005 Cadillac DTS Presidential Limousine A black Lincoln stretch limousine at a car show in Bristol, England A limousine (or limo) is a long luxury car, traditionally black in color. ...

Competitive Driving

In most European and English-speaking countries, show driving is a competitive equestrian sport. Many shows host driving competitions for a particular breed of horse or type of carriage.

Other competitors compete in the all-around test of driving: Combined driving also known as Horse Driving Trials is an equestrian discipline regulated by the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) and with National Federations representing each member country. Combined driving is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving. ... Combined driving is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving. ...

World Championships take place on alternate years, including Single Horse Championships, Horse Pairs Championships and Four-in-Hand Championships as well as the Four-in-Hand competition at the World Equestrian Games, held every four years.

For pony drivers, the World Combined Pony Championships are held every two years and include singles, pairs and four-in-hand.

Carriage collections

• Nymphenburg
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Illustrated descriptions of some of the carriages
• Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
• Coson Collection, Beechdale, Pennsylvania
• Versailles, the Grand Stables
  • The Versailles Stables
• Carriage Museum of America
• Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

View from the Park The Nymphenburg Palace (German: Schloss Nymphenburg) is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna Madonna im Grünen by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress by Velázquez Schloss Belvedere, Vienna by Canaletto The Kunsthistorisches Museum (en: Museum of Art History) in Vienna, is located on Ringstraße. ... Versailles: Louis Le Vau opened up the interior court to create the expansive entrance cour dhonneur, later copied all over Europe Monument of Louis XIV in the cour dhonneur The Château de Versailles —or simply Versailles— is a royal château, outside the gates of which the... The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ...

External links

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Carriage

• Pablo Gunther, "The Casanova Tour" Illustrated overview of 18th century carriage types.
• Illustrated catalog of carriages that were available from E.S. Annison, Hull, Yorkshire, 1896

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References

• Sallie Walrond, Looking at Carriages
• Arthur Ingram, Horse Drawn Vehicles since 1760 in Colour, Blanford Press 1977.