Types
The types are continually being added. If you have any suggestions for additions, please send them by email to the museums in Leek, Lisbon or Vienna.
Basket wagon
Carriage partly made of basket-work.
Broom
A four wheel enclosed two- seater carriage without perch and with a paneled boot for the driver in front. It had its beginning in 1838/39 when Lord Brougham had a London coachbilder named Robinson construct for him a carriage of his own design, tough its lines where based on those of carriages used earlier in the Continent.
Berlingot
A two-seat
berlin. The front part of the body is cut off in such manner, that the front door pillar becomes the front corner pillar.
Berlin-Coupé
A two-seat
berlin. The front part of the body is cut off in such manner, that the front door pillar becomes the front corner pillar.
Berlin
A four wheel enclosed carriage with four or more seats. When it first appeared in the second half of the 17th century it had (contrary to the older coach) two perches and a new system of suspension: long leather straps, called thoroughbraces, passed under the body, and where attached to and regulated by the windlasses or jacks at the axles. Since the second half of the 18th century the berlin-body was hung in S - or C-springs. The invention of the elliptic spring (1804) permitted also the construction of berlins without perch and with the boot framed into the body. In the 19th century gala-berlins where usually built with eight springs (C-springs over elliptic springs).
Barouche
A four-wheel carriage of german origin introduced in Britain around 1760 and widely known as 'German Wagon'. The barouche had full undercarriage and lower
quarters but no upper panels and was only partly covered by a rearward or half-hood. Passengers normally faced in the direction of travel, altough some vehicles had folding seats, on which others might be seated via-à-vis. Essentially a town vehicle for summer driving, altough some eventually had a protective screen able to close against the raised hood. The drivers seat, as with the
landau and certain types of
chariot, was well raised above the bodywork.
Brougham
A four wheel enclosed two- seater carriage without perch and with a paneled boot for the driver in front. It had its beginning in 1838/39 when Lord Brougham had a London coachbilder named Robinson construct for him a carriage of his own design, tough its lines where based on those of carriages used earlier in the Continent.
