Carriages

thumb|A royal landau (carriage)|landau outside [[Buckingham Palace, London]] thumb|Competitive driving in Rennes, France thumb|The National Coach Museum in [[Lisbon, Portugal]] A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers. In Europe they were a common mode of transport for the wealthy during the Roman Empire, and then again from around 1600 until they were replaced by the motor car around 1900. They were generally owned by the rich, but second-hand private carriages became common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis. Carriage suspensions are

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large four-wheeled closed carriage used by 1: royalty or people of quality or 2: a similar plainer vehicle with seats inside and outside for public conveyance of passengers

four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

traditional Russian driving arrangement with three horses

four wheeled open carriage with retractable rain cover, driven either from passenger bench or from extra bench on the back, primarily used as sports vehicle

Two wheeled closed horse-drawn carriage with bench for two passengers, at the backside seperate elevated seat for driver, for commercial transport of persons

thumbnail|Barouche in Livrustkammaren, Stockholm, Sweden

four-wheeled open boat-shaped carriage with two doors, two facing benches for four to six persons, with convertible hood on both sides and seperate raised bench. Primarily for passenger transport

type of covered, fast and light, four-wheeled, travelling horse carriage with two interior seats and a separate hooded rear seat for a footman, detached from the body

light horse-drawn vehicle

thumb|Charabanc, late 19th century thumb|Royal Charabanc of Maria II of Portugal A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle and an early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. The term remains in use for some public service vehicles in a small number of countries.

car for hire

thumb|Drosky 1858 thumb|Dorożka (Street-cab), a sketch by Aleksander Orłowski thumb|Orlov Trotter Krasa in racing droshky by Sverchkov

light, two-wheeled sprung cart

horse-drawn carriage in Turkey

thumb|Drawing of a chaise in Paris, 1799 thumb|A chaise

thumb|1850 Cariole at the Shelburne Museum

auxiliary seat in a vehicle

thumb|Horses hitched in tandem pulling a carriage Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which two or more animals, machines, or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. Tandem can also be used more generally to refer to any group of persons or objects working together, not necessarily in line.

two or four wheeled convertible carriage with one bench for two passengers, controlled from the seat. Primarily for casual rides and leisure

thumb|American Britzka design (1850–1870) thumb|Austrian Britschka design ()

thumb|250px|Dogcart with horses in tandem A dogcart (also dog-cart or dog cart) is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or driven tandem. With seating for four, it was designed for sporting shooters and their gun dogs, with a louvred box under the driver's seat to contain dogs. It was developed in the early 1800s to afford more seating than the gig, which seats only two. Seating is two back-to-back crosswise seats, an arrangement called dos-à-dos from French. There is a hinged tailboard which lowers slightly and, supported by chains, acts as a footrest for the

horse-drawn carriage

thumb|A kibitka on sleigh runners

A wagonette or waggonette, meaning little wagon, is a four-wheeled open carriage drawn by one or two horses. It has a front seat for the driver, and passengers enter from the rear and sit face to face on longitudinal bench seats. Originating around the 1840s, the body is mounted on four sets of springs.

horse-drawn carriage

thumb|300px|A tarantass in Siberia, c.1885 The tarantass is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle on a long longitudinal frame, reducing road jolting on long-distance travel. It was widely used in Russia in the first half of the 19th century. It generally carried four passengers. The origin of the word is not known: Max Vasmer's lists a number of variants from regional dialects to the ancient Indo-European roots with the mark "doubtful".

carriage

carriage type

horse-drawn vehicle in which the passengers are seated face to face on two benches perpendicular to the long axis of the car

carriage drawn by four horses

type of two wheeler from India

four-wheeled closed carriage with two doors, a bench for two persons, primarily for transport of persons.

small two-wheeled horse-drawn cart

horse drawn carriage from India

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thumb|A gharry (1890s) thumb|A modern gharry (2004)

type of coach