Phaeton [ Transport ]
… Humphries, ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052. Résumé Pleasure-driving emerged as a new elite sociable pastime in late eighteenth-century Britain. The best and most desired pleasure-carriage was the phaeton. Toweringly high and extremely dangerous to drive, the phaeton was the supercar of the … course of the long eighteenth century and by its close, elite 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 …
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