House (horse-drawn)

Pavillon indicates the high part of the case of a closed horse-drawn car, as well as the equivalent in automobie body. This name comes from Latin papilio , butterfly, which indicated a light tent in the shape of butterfly, and from which come the majority from the various directions of the word house . In the beginning, as regards body, the house is the trimming of fabric, leather or imitation leather, which were applied inside as outside the car. In a more restricted direction, the house is the “roof” of the car. In the shape of dome on the stage coach S, it can be round or flat according to the models and the times, and be overcome sites for the luggage, of additional seats, or an imperial .

The house is also the name given to a type of Diligence at the XIXe century, whose manufacture if not was industrialized, at least standardized so as to produce many specimens in series. The house in six places had a case of truck in four places, a convertible in two places with front, opened, protected by a kind of advanced forming a platform, on which was placed the seat of the coachman in two places. The luggage were placed on the roof under a cover. A trunk was placed at the rear. The house was suspended on six springs, and was drawn by two horses. The unit could reach 1600 K in load. It could also become a house in eight places , by the addition of a seat to the back, on the trunk, protected by a hood.

Sources

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

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