Landaulet (carriage)
A landaulet carriage is a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau horse-drawn carriage. The landaulet retained the rear half of the landau's two-part folding top.[1]
The earliest use of the word shown in the Oxford English Dictionary is in a patent of 1771, using the former spelling landawlet.[2]
A variant of the brougham called a brougham-landaulet had a top collapsible from the rear doors backward.
The name landaulet was also used for the landaulet car body style, where the passengers are covered by a removable top and the driver is usually covered and separated from passengers by a partition.
- 1816 Carriage
- Landaulet carriage
- Landaulet carriage
References
- ↑ Merriam-Webster 1991, p. 358.
- ↑ "Landaulet, n.". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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