A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin to a funeral, wake, or graves
Cadillac hearse used at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan
Interior of a hearse in Denmark
Museo del Carmen de Maipú [es] Maipú, Chile
Jewish hearse, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezín, Czech Republic
The Landau began as a carriage design with a folding fabric top consisting of two sections supported by external elliptical springs. This landau roof design was adopted in early automobiles as a conve
Hearse
…so the coffin is barely glimpsed. This American style is fitted with a heavily padded leather or vinyl roof and each side decorated with large mock landau bars resembling the braces used for the folding leather tops on some horse-drawn carriages. The other has narrow pillars and large windows revealing the…
1902 State landau closed, London, England.
1902 State landau open, London, England, 2011. The leather roof is folded down
Clarkson Steam Landau at Richmond Park, England, June 1899
Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island in a Kriéger electric landaulette, c.1906