Tandem (horse-drawn)

See also: Tandem (homonymy)

The tandem was a car Hippomobile originating in England, with two wheels, discovery, with a seat for the Cocher placed very high (up to 1,80 m of the ground). Its main feature is to be conceived to be harnessed of two horses out of arrow , i.e. one behind the other. This characteristic made it possible the sporting drivers to circulate easily on narrow ways.

Its name, which made receipt, does not come as one can sometimes read it, of a hypothetical Lord Tandem who would have been the inventor at the XVIIIe century. It is in fact the Latin word tandem , which means “finally”: the British students, who affected Latin speech then, made fun the length of these crews by shouting Tandem! when such a Attelage had finished passing in front of them. The word remained to indicate the attachment out of tandem , then the car, and later the two-seater bicycle, like all the machines functioning in double.

Sources

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

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