Landaulet (carriage)

A landaulet or landaulette carriage is a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau horse-drawn carriage. The landaulette retains 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-landaulette had a top collapsible from the rear doors backward.

The name landaulette was also used for the landaulet car body style, where the passengers are covered by a removable top and the chauffeur is usually covered and separated from passengers by a division.

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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[FOOTNOTEMerriam-Webster1991358-1] Merriam-Webster 1991, p. 358.

[2] "Landaulet, n.". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)