Phaeton [ Transport ]
… Britons began to enjoy the sociable pastime of pleasuring/pleasure driving: that is, carriage travel for the purposes of leisure and sociability, to be seen and to meet others out in the streets driving rather than the practical need for … and legislation such as the Turnpike Act provided the perfect conditions for pleasure-driving to take off as an elite leisure activity. Phaetons were one- or two-person carriages with an open-top, open-sided lightweight body that sat atop … and Charles Black, 1862), p. 287. In fashionable, urban centres owner-driven pleasure carriages were key parts of elite leisure. The route du roi or ‘Rotten Row’, the most famous carriage promenade in London, ran along the south side of Hyde …
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