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GlossaryThis glossary is continually being developed. If you have any suggestions for additions, please send them by email to the museums in Leek, BaroucheA 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.BroughamA 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. Berlin-CoupĂ©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. BootA leather receptacle for luggage. In the transformation of the coach into the modern pleasure carriage, the boot was naturally abandoned, and disappeared from the hind end of the vehicle altogether, and in front was cut down into a sharpely support for the driver´s seat, beeing reduced to a mere relic of it´s former office.BreakIt is a multiple usage vehicle that was introduced in England during the second half of the 19th Century. At the beginning it was intented for hunter's transportation. Later, several models appeared and were used in hunting - equipped with boxes to carry guns and places for dogs under the seats - or just for promenades in th countryside. Break vehicles, with or without a "hood", of different sizes, are characterized by having seats perpendicular to the axle, accommodating several passengers seated vis-à-vis, and a rear entry. .shs) BerlinA 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).  BroomA 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. |
