Half-compartment (horse-drawn)

A cut is a horse-drawn car whose origins, and thus characteristics, can be varied. As its name implies it, it is about a car which was shortened (“crossed”) so as to decrease its obstruction and to reduce of this fact the number of places available, i.e. generally, to remove the two front places. The half-compartment thus has two places, plus the seat of the coachman. The first half-compartments were Carrosse S or of the truck S, then other types of cars had their version cut . In the beginning, the half-compartment was called carton .
The large half-compartment round constitutes the first current shape of this car. About 1830, the small square half-compartment appears, with four wheels, closed case of square form, with a seat for two passengers. The seat of the coachman, with before and outside, rests on a trunk. The small half-compartment is suspended on two springs tweezers with before and with half-tweezers with the back, connected by a transverse spring. The small half-compartment is the model of the hackney carriage French. In 1838, the English carriage-builders Robinson & Cook will make the brougham of it.
The cut city was a car with two places, of prestige, reserved for the ceremonies.
The half-compartment-email derived from the Mail coach, name English of the Malle-poste and by extension of a kind of Diligence, and preserved of them the external seats and the coffres.
The cut three-quarter was a half-compartment to which one had spared a advances (in front of the case) to offer two small places, or a bench étroite.
The landaulet is the form cut of the pram. There existed also landaulets three-quarter . The désobligeante was a cut which offered only one place inside.

The cut indicates the part before composite car, like the Diligence.

The half-compartment gave its name to a type of automobie body: to see Cut.

Sources

Joseph Jobé, At the time of the coachmen , Lausanne, Published-Lazarus, 1976. ISBN 2-88001-019-5

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