Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution

by Ralph Straus

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To
B. S. S.

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Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	THE PRIMITIVE VEHICLE	[17]
II.	THE AGE OF LITTERS	[42]
III.	THE INTRODUCTION OF THE COACH	[56]
IV.	INTERLUDE OF THE CHAIR	[85]
V.	SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY INNOVATIONS	[109]
VI.	EARLY GEORGIAN CARRIAGES	[147]
VII.	THE WAR OF THE WHEELS	[176]
VIII.	THE AGE OF TRANSITION	[204]
IX.	INVENTIONS GALORE	[227]
X.	MODERN CARRIAGES	[255]
	INDEX	[287]

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List of Illustrations

The State Coach of Great Britain	Frontispiece
Types of Primitive Carts	facing pagege[20]
Assyrian Chariot	faci”ngpa”gex[22]
Cisium	faci”ngpa”gex[30]
Carpentum	faci”ngpa”gex[30]
Pilentum	faci”ngpa”gex[32]
Benna	faci”ngpa”gex[32]
Fourteenth Century English Carriage	faci”ngpa”gex[46]
Fourteenth Century Reaper’s Cart	faci”ngpa”gex[46]
Elizabethan Carriages	faci”ngpa”gex[70]
Neapolitan Sedan-chair	faci”ngpa”ge[100]
The “Social Pinch”	faci”ngpa”ge[104]
Sedans	faci”ngpa”ge[104]
Coach in the Time of Charles I	faci”ngpa”ge[112]
Coach in the Time of Charles II	faci”ngpa”ge[112]
Early French Gig	faci”ngpa”ge[136]
Early Italian Gig	faci”ngpa”ge[142]
The State Carriage of Bavaria	faci”ngpa”ge[148]
The Darnley Chariot	faci”ngpa”ge[152]
Queen Anne’s Procession to the Cathedral of S. Paul	faci”ngpa”ge[158]
“The Carriage Match”	faci”ngpa”ge[190]
“Phaetona, or Modern Female Taste”	faci”ngpa”ge[196]
“Sir Gregory Gigg”	faci”ngpa”ge[196]
George III’s Posting Chariot	faci”ngpa”ge[206]
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland’s Coach	faci”ngpa”ge[208]
“English Travelling, or the First Stage from Dover”	faci”ngpa”ge[216]
“French Travelling, or the First Stage from Calais”	faci”ngpa”ge[218]
Early American Shay	faci”ngpa”ge[220]
English Posting Chariot	faci”ngpa”ge[220]
Barouche	faci”ngpa”ge[232]
Landaulet	faci”ngpa”ge[232]
Stanhope	faci”ngpa”ge[234]
Tilbury	faci”ngpa”ge[234]
Cabriolet	faci”ngpa”ge[234]
“The Coffin-Cab	faci”ngpa”ge[246]
London Cab of 1823	faci”ngpa”ge[246]
Dioropha	faci”ngpa”ge[252]
Brougham in 1859	faci”ngpa”ge[252]
Edward VII’s Coronation Landau	faci”ngpa”ge[258]
Dress Coach, 1860	faci”ngpa”ge[260]
English State Carriage, 1911	faci”ngpa”ge[260]
“Princess Victoria in Her Pony Phaeton	faci”ngpa”ge[266]
Canoe-shaped Landau	faci”ngpa”ge[268]
Drag	faci”ngpa”ge[268]
Modern American Station Wagon	faci”ngpa”ge[274]
Modern American Buggy	faci”ngpa”ge[274]

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