Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-24
Wheeled Vehicles.

--.-1AHFseRdacheriots of-arudc cons'rrcs
ton h9SyG peep used from very carly ames;i
but 61iJagt5tlAt tuiain ,my Way be con.
= sdorcdas the precursors of our present
q Mpy99t Into use until the Middle Ages !.
and Tor many years after the first intro
ducJioil lof ctmqles they were only used
by ladies, and by them only upon State
30 AgciHons. Kings and dlsnighsconsider
81 bsgA kinds OF, carriages ,as efFemihate ma,
chimes, and scorncd to be seen within
them. Judy yes and lawyers rode the cir
q ScIHk bl5sie eiabsv SIZED theitf Patients on
horsoback and popes, bishops, and alb
bots ambled on quiet horses or mules. AS
late a. the r2ign Of Francis. / there were
: Hi&ily>tfse t6iches hiParis One Of these
belonged to the Queen, another to Diana
'qphot Poticre, and the third to Rene de
'Lavi1, a edrpulcnt nobeman, who was
unable to ride on horseback
s9us iGarragCs met with great opposition at
their first introddctioh, and laws were
made TO suppress their use. AS early as
the year 1891 Philip the Fair of France,
HJDM. W IwHtii fl6j jSi7es q citESiy are
forbidden the use of carriages Beck
mann tells us that there is preserved in
TfQ9fhtkEs of fltheOounty Of Mark, an
Edett liiP which the feudal nobility and
.go VassasaTe prohibited from using coaches
under pain of incurring the punishment
OF felony. Duke John, of Brunswick,
sAai published an order in 1883, rondly rating
80 diis, vassals for neglect Of hoisemanship,
sl. and torbidding them to appear or travel in
DEL 'tUtches. a few years after this, the Eng
iislf Parliament took up the discussion of
the subject, but on the Tth of November,
1901, the bill to restrain the excessive use
OF coaches within this realm of England
- was rejected ~..trtrE
,..!ti, Coaches were, for many wears, used
sLJ only ON State occasions, and for purposes
OF pomp, when gorgeous show was
made by their lmngings and trappings,
ls'9 ana by the number of horses which drew
them, Az first they were open at the top,
but IN course of time canopy was added
AS glass windows were not introduced
INTO carriages until many years after their
sfhfEslntr9dqetiop, they were long closed
sNt9Wfeh shutters When Queen Elizabeth
pvwisited Warwick in 1872 the bailiff is
said to have approached near to her coach,
III III ana she caused ''every part and side of
1.-The coach TO- be opened that all her sub
,sif1ectS might behold her, which most gladly
they desired -
S' Coaches were built in the most .substau.
iu tidl manner with broad wheels, in orderto
make thcm suitable for the bad roads, and
fhe TRACES were usually made of rope. Sus-
~ pended carriages were not known before
.tlthe reign of Louis XIV and the fearful
"a tumbiings and tossings of the numbering.
sprlngless carriages as they iolted over the
A. had r0ndS can be easier imagined than de-
va serbedl' The London coaches were built
r.5Nery narrow so that they might be able to
e1othe fire they were widened The first i'm
bereavement in carriages came from France,
a. and the Count dc Grammont gained great
Gpeelat at the Court of Charles H. by bring
s"ij7hhg 0V,er'hn elegant cdlash, which cost him
r,o tWo thousand louis lie presented the
beautiful vehicle to the King, and the
aQuech and Duchess of ork rode in il for
TIC hr5t time, TO their own contcntment
i, and the admiration of the whole Court.
~ Iost chaisos were invented in 1864 but
fr.nf, 4
40 intlo last and present centuries they were
4" largely employed until the introduction of
..sfallNaXS. y postchaise was close
vrbodieds carriage on four Wheels made to
F~hold three people in the inside, all look
.qnlnG forward and with a glass front like
-i,sa chariot. 1t was drawn by two horses
:tand, driven by Il poSt.boy, who 70 35 on
t.. one Of theth. Occasionally in by-.,a
d1.lE was necessary to have four horses
The cost of posting was large and ner-
0Hosohs often a{lytrtised for a felIoW -t.ag.le.
.isst share the,eXpense. s...st.. -o4
BdT In theSdays when George | l. was King
Nonll George " was Prince of Wales.
o. fashionable men ran mad with the desire
to out-rival each other in the splendor of
sNsthe vehicles they drove, The phaeton
itnd cnTiGle were two of the chief favor
af ties, but the former was at first a most
Tnsigltly object
o. auMany Of the varieties of carriages still
remain in use, as lhe landau, bIrouche
D4 bTtH9chSl, chariot, and family-coach, but
the two! latiof have nearly died o 1t BIZ
u>IeAon OF tbs superior covenience of the
Broqghlm and Clarence The old
a chariot-anl FOUR is altogether thing
OF tie past; but it. OCCASION
.s,Ally did great things in its day rs
when Lord Londonderry spoke in the
House of Lords one night, and was two
hundred and fifty miles off at his own door
IN Durham, onthe next night One of the
oldest carriages constructed to acconmo-
date two persons was the Berlin which
4 t9dk It's name from the1oitp, and was in
vented by Philip dc Chicse, Colonel and
~-9gartermaster in the service. of Frederick
IWiLiam. ElectQr of Br;uldenburgN The
NIs-a-Vls Was once a very fashionable car
rlage, which held two persons, who sat
& opposite each other Carriages to hold
two or more were companonable, but Dr.
Darwin found that he lost much time by
- being sociable, he built carriage to
mold only one person, in order that he
g., might not beexpected to ask any one to ac-
company him in his drives He composed
ispoetry in it as he went to his more dis
tant patients, and his disappointed friends
called it Il "sullly"
Omnlbuses were first brought into use
at Paris in 1927, and two years afterward
twelve omnibuses We're started in London
byJ, Shilibeer, II coach h-builder-TTemple
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