Mail coach

The mail coach was a horse-drawn car intended for the origin with the transport of the dispatches and Courrier in general, appeared in France about 1800. It is the equivalent of the British Mail coach .

The mail coach succeeds the trunk-cart , affected vehicle with the same use at the time of the kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. The trunk-cart, as its name indicates it, was a not suspended cart, with two wheels, glaze, usually drawn by three horses: a fort shaft horse , a second horse in galère (reinforcement), and a third, the carrying , assembled by a Postilion. The strong bumps to which the trunk-cart was subjected was worth him the name of “police van”, well before the modern direction given to another quite particular type of car, the cars of police force.

The mail coach can transport, in addition to the mail, the passengers. It is thus a heavier car, closed, with four wheels, suspended on springs, drawn by four or five horses. The front part, the convertible, receives the coachman and a passenger beside him. In the central part, the half-compartment, take to seat three travellers. The back part is the trunk reserved for the mail.

The mail coaches were supposed to be faster than the Diligence S. Those, heavier, transporting more passengers, became prevalent during the 19th century. Under the Restoration, the mail coaches were painted in yellow, then, under Louis-Philippe, in gray chip .

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Sources

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

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