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Coupé (carriage)
A coupé was a four-wheeled carriage with outside front seat for the driver and enclosed passenger seats for two persons. The name ''coupé'' comes from the French past participle of ''couper'', "cut". The coupé carriage body style originated from the berline horse-drawn carriage. The coupé version of the berline was introduced in the 18th century as a shortened ("cut") version with no rear-facing seat. "When the Berline body was shortened the Berline Coupe, or just Coupe, resulted." Normally, a coupe had a fixed glass window in the front of the passenger compartment. The coupe was considered an ideal vehicle for women to use to go shopping or to make social visits. Types The grand coupé with a curved body was the first common form of this carriage. Around 1830, the small coupé appeared, of four wheels, a closed squared body, with seats for two passengers. The coachman's seat, at the front and outside, rests on a chest. The small coupé is suspended on two pincer springs at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koets Brussel
Koets means ''coach'' (a four-wheeled carriage) in Dutch. It is a Dutch surname that may refer to *Adam Koets (born 1984), American football offensive tackle *Arent Jacobsz Koets (c.1600–1635), Dutch concierge *Arne Koets, Dutch historical European martial arts practitioner *Roelof Koets (1592–1654), Dutch painter *Roelof Koets (Zwolle) (1655–1725), Dutch painter See also *Kuts *Kutz *Couts {{surname Dutch-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin (carriage)
A Berlin or Berline carriage is a type of enclosed four-wheeled carriage with two interior bench seats facing one-another. Initially noted for using two perch rails and having the body suspended by leather straps called braces, the term continued in use for many carriages even after the suspension system changed to steel springs. History The carriage was designed around 1660 or 1670 by a Piedmontese architect commissioned by the General quartermaster to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg who used the carriage to travel 1,054 km (654.9 mi) from Berlin to Paris, where his carriage created a sensation. While some heavy-duty vehicles had used double-perches before, passenger vehicles had normally used a single perch. The elegant but durable style was widely copied and named "berline" after the city from which the carriage had come. It was more convenient than other carriages of the time, being lighter and less likely to overturn. The berline began to supplant the less p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Kremlin Museums
Moscow Kremlin Museums (, ) is a major state-run museum in Moscow Kremlin. Its roots lie in the Kremlin Armoury museum founded in 1806, the current form of the museum started in 1991. The Head of the museum (since 2001) is Yelena Gagarina, daughter of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. There were 424,922 visitors to the Kremlin Museums in 2020, a drop of 86 percent from 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it still ranked 46th on the List of most-visited art museums in the world in 2020.The Art Newspaper list of most-visited art museums, March 31, 2021 Moscow Kremlin Museums have the following parts: * Kremlin Armoury (Оружейная палата) * Diamond Fund (Алмазный фонд) * Dormition Cathedral (Успенский Собор) * Cathedral of the Archangel (Архангельский собор) * Cathedral of the Annunciation (Благовещенский собор) * Residence of Patriarchs and Church of the Twelve Apostles (Патриарший дворе ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiacre (carriage)
A fiacre is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. In Vienna such cabs are called . Origin The earliest use of the word in English is cited by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as from 1699 ("Wikt:fiacre, Fiacres or Hackneys, hung with Double Springs"). The name is derived indirectly from Saint Fiacre; the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre in Paris rented carriages from about the middle of the seventeenth century. Saint Fiacre was adopted as the cab drivers' patron saint because of the association of his name with the carriage. In Paris In 1645, Nicholas Sauvage, a coachbuilder from Amiens, decided to set up a business in Paris hiring out horses and carriages by the hour. He established himself in the Hôtel de Saint Fiacre and hired out his four-seater carriages at a rate of 10 sous an hour. Within twenty years, Sauvage's idea had developed into the first citywide public transport system: ''les carosses à 5 sous'' ("5-sou carriages"). These 8-seater carriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mail Coach
A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail. In Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia, they were built to a General Post Office-approved design operated by an independent contractor to carry long-distance mail for the Post Office. Mail was held in a box at the rear where the only Royal Mail employee, an armed guard, stood. Passengers were taken at a premium fare. There was seating for four passengers inside and more outside with the driver. The guard's seat could not be shared. This distribution system began in Britain in 1784. In Ireland the same service began in 1789, and in Australia it began in 1828. A mail coach service ran to an exact and demanding schedule. Aside from quick changes of horses the coach only stopped for collection and delivery of mail and never for the comfort of the passengers. To avoid a steep fine Toll road, turnpike gates had to be open by the time the mail coach with its right of free passage passed through. The gatekeeper was warned by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chariot (carriage)
A chariot is a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. It is a sort of shortened coach, cut off in front of the door, with the front seat omitted and the front wall constructed with a window, and lighter than a full coach. A chariot seats two people on a single seat facing forward, though it might have a small fold-down seat in the front for a child. It would either be driven by a coachman, or the high driver's seat removed and guided by postilion riders. It was popular from the late 17th century to the late 19th century, but was eventually replaced by the smaller brougham and other coupé A coupe or coupé (, ) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and typically with two doors. The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the Fr ... carriages. The origin of the word is obscured because ''chariot'' and the similar words ''char'', ''chair'', ''chare'', ''charet'', and ''charet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brougham (carriage)
A brougham is a 19th century four-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse. It was named after the politician and jurist Lord Brougham, who had this type of carriage built to his specification by London coachbuilder Robinson & Cook in 1838. Description The brougham has an enclosed body with two doors and sits two passengers; there are two fold-away seats in the front corners for small children. It has a box seat in front for a coachman plus one footman or passenger. The carriage body has a front window so that the passengers can see forward. The carriage is mounted on elliptical springs with small front wheels which can go under the carriage to turn sharply. Features specific to the brougham include: * the absence of a perch (a supporting pole connecting the front and rear axles); the spring hangers were mounted directly to the body structure, saving weight and lowering the floor, to ease entry * a sharply squared end of the roof at the back, * a body line curving forward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence (carriage)
A clarence is a type of carriage that was popular in the early 19th century. It is a closed, four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with a projecting glass front and seats for four passengers inside. The driver sat at the front, outside the carriage. The clarence was named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later King William IV of the United Kingdom, who died in 1837. It was introduced in 1840 in London. The Brougham was a lighter, two-passenger version originally commissioned by Lord Brougham. In time, second-hand clarences came to be used as hackney carriages, earning the nickname ''growler'' from the sound they made on London's cobbled streets. Gallery File:Clarence Coach (19th Century) (25401104647).jpg, King Pedro V's Clarence coach at National Coach Museum, Portugal File:Lisbon, Museu Nacional dos Coches, coach for the president of the republic.JPG, The presidential coach, National Coach Museum, Portugal File:Horse (Cleveland Bay) Drawn Clarence (Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landau (carriage)
A landau (pronounced ''LAN-dow'') is a four-wheeled carriage with a cover that can be let down. It was a luxury carriage. The low shell of the landau provides maximal visibility of the occupants and their clothing, a feature that makes a landau a popular choice for ceremonial occasions. History of landau carriages A landau is lightweight and suspended on elliptical springs. It was invented in the 18th century; ''landau'' in this sense is first noted in English in 1743. It was named after the German city of Landau in the Palatinate region, Rhenish Palatinate where they were first produced. In the 1830s, Luke Hopkinson, a celebrated coach-maker in Holborn, introduced the Briska Landau, which led to subsequent improvements to the popular landau. Description and development A landau, drawn by a pair or Four-in-hand (carriage), four-in-hand, is one of several kinds of Vis-à-vis (carriage), vis-à-vis, a social carriage with facing seats over a dropped footwell (''illustration'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landau
Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz (, ), is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate (wine region), Palatinate wine region. Landau lies east of the Palatinate forest, on the German Wine Route. It contains the districts (''Ortsteile'') of Arzheim, Dammheim, Godramstein, Mörlheim, Mörzheim, Nussdorf, Queichheim, and Wollmesheim. History and other settings Landau was first mentioned as a settlement in 1106. It was in the possession of the counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Landeck, whose arms, differenced by an Escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon of the Imperial eagle, served as the arms of Landau until 1955. The town was granted a charter in 1274 by King Rudolph I of Germany, Rudolf I of Kingdom of German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stagecoach
A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, ) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses. Commonly used before steam-powered rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using stage stations or posts where the stagecoach's horses would be replaced by fresh horses. The business of running stagecoaches or the act of journeying in them was known as staging. Some familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver" and a Wells Fargo stagecoach arriving at or leaving an American frontier town. The yard of ale drinking glass is associated by legend with stagecoach driver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
