Postilion
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A postilion or postillion is a person who rides a harnessed horse that is pulling a horse-drawn vehicle such as a coach, rather than driving from behind as a coachman does. This method is used for pul
This coach, designed without a driver's seat, is guided by a postilion riding the left-side horse.
Postilions control the horses drawing the Queen's coach at the State Opening of Parliament, London 2015.
Postilions at the state funeral of Ronald Reagan, 2004
ANZAC horses and postilions struggle to move a gun, Passchendaele, 1917, by Harold Septimus Power.
Coach (carriage)
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Coaches are horse-drawn carriages which are large, enclosed, four-wheeled, pulled by two or more horses, and controlled by a coachman or postilion. If driven by a coachman, there is a raised seat in f
Postilion
…A postilion or postillion is a person who rides a harnessed horse that is pulling a horse-drawn vehicle such as a coach, rather than driving from behind as a coachman does. This method is used for pulling wheeled vehicles that do not have a driver's seat, such as many…
A park drag coach in a coaching competition (2009)
Coach driving (1912)
The Diamond Jubilee, a state coach built in 2014
A private coach