Phaeton [ Transport ]
… do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052. Abstract Pleasure-driving emerged as a new elite sociable pastime in late eighteenth-century Britain. The best and most desired pleasure-carriage was the phaeton. … to be seen and to meet others out in the streets driving rather than the practical need for transportation. A host of new carriage models emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century to facilitate this new pastime. Some earlier models …
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