Post chaise
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A post-chaise is a travelling carriage operated in the 18th and early 19th centuries, travelling from staging post-to-post, and changing horses at each stage. With an enclosed body on four wheels, sea
A typical post-chaise arrangement: carriage, four horses, and two postilions (riders)
A closeup of a post chaise (2005)
Samuel Howitt (1756–1822)
Samuel Howitt (1756–1822)
Coupé (carriage)
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A coupé or coupe or chariot is a compact enclosed four-wheeled carriage. From the French word coupé meaning to "cut", its design was derived from the Berlin coach by shortening the front. The British
Post chaise
…and changing horses at each stage. With an enclosed body on four wheels, seating two people, and drawn by two or four horses, it is basically a chariot carriage with the coachman's seat removed. Riders, called postilions, rode the near-side (left) horse of each pair pulling the carriage. Hired when long-distance…
A coupé, France
A coupé, Hungary
A carosse coupé of Portuguese origin in Brussels
Denmark's Golden Coach is a coupé (2024)