Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-12
MOTOR CAR NAMES
HAVE some odd
DERIVATIQVs

+. II =
"A great many people ask us
where the names of the different
Lads OF meteor cars came FROM said
tir. =. Il. BODICE Of the Won Hamin.
Young Co, the other day Origin,
ely, Of course, moor car bodies
we're called by names inherited, so to
speak, from the carriage builders
and Jnese IN turn were Derived from
some person or place as rule. But
the notifications In body design
which the motor chassis has made
necessary, shave given rise TO new
set OF names. or a new meaning for
the old carriage names. l
YThe name limousine arouses the
most curiosity. suppose, and when
you come 20 look into its derivation
il Is the most curious, continued Mr..
Dodge. pointing TO one OF the new c.
Six Stevens duryea's the car that is
said to set new standards for fine
automobiles by way OF illustration.
sOrieinally Limousine meant, in
French, q WOODEN cloak, such as the
public carriers WORE Il was 10 great
avolution from this to its meaning
the top or the canopy. or whatever
you may call It, of the carrier s. cart.
This cart was a two-wheeled affair,
entered from the front, and the four
passengers faced forward The name
limousine soon was applied to the
whole cart.
The first Limousine automobile
exhibited In this country was one of
the Duryea wagons which were pre-
decessors of the present Stevens
Duryea motor cars. II made its APP
pearance about ten years ago. The
distinctive feature OF its construction
was that it seated four persons. two
on front seat and two on a rear
seat. which were divided by parti-
ton all the way from the floor to
the roof. access to the rear seat be-
ing through an opening in this parti-
ton. Then the side-door entrance
was adopted, the body was enlarged,
and the seating capacity increased.
I.andaulet is, Of course, q diminu-
tive landau, which was carriage
seating four people, with the top d.
vided in the middle, the front part
being entirely removable while the
lack part folded down on to the
body. 1t got its name from the town
in Germany where the design was or
iginated. The landaulet motor car is
simply the landaulet adapted to use
on a chassis: and the limousine-lan-
daulet is a Limousine car, the front
half Of which has a permanent top,
while the other half of the top folds
down upon the body like the top Of
a touring car.
"Carbriolet is transitional name
still used more or less in England or
France, but in this country the type
of car 1t describes is generally called
q convertible phaeton. Back In the
zoos the carbriolet was sort of a
one-horse chaise; in fact, by strict
derivation, the word cabriolet means
little armchair. The horse vehicle
originally had a hood which extended
to the dash board; the French car
briolet of today is an enclosed car
rage with an extension OF the top
over the front seat; and the develop
ment of this type of motor car body
was carried one step further by the
Stevens Duryea Company two years
ago when It brought out its convert
ible phaeton. This latest type of car
may be WIDELY enclosed, or the en-
tire top may be folded hack, and the
supports which held it up and form
the window frames can be lowered
and concealed in the body, making
II a regulation touring car in appear
ance. The latest TYNE of Stevens
Dnryea convertible phaeton contains
improvements that make it a distinct
innovation as compared with any
thing either in this country or
abroad"