96 FOUR-WHEELERS. 



breadth 3 ft. 10 in.; the height from the ground at 

 heel, 5 ft. ; the slope upwards to the front being made 

 to suit the size of the horses, as well as in some cases 

 the length of the coachman's legs. A coach built on 

 these lines will follow well without rolling, and be, if 

 not quite, nearly perfect." — p- 49- 



The Brougham : 



" Lord Brougham did not invent the carriage which 

 long before 1837 was a common vehicle in the streets 

 of Paris or to be hired as a voitiire dc place. . . . Lord 

 Brougham had the good sense to import one. from Paris 

 and to have one built by an English coach builder, who, 

 whilst sticking nearly to the lines of the original, made 

 it more elegant, lighter and stronger. The form is 

 simple and sensible in the extreme, and, as we have seen 

 of late years, is capable of all sorts of modifications." 

 — /. 4/. 



The Victoria : 



'* In the summer of 1850 another royal carriage, 

 which has since attained great popularity, was first 

 introduced into England, though the vehicle was not 

 quite a novelty to those who were familiar with the 

 summer street cabs of Paris. This was the Victoria, 

 not precisely, it may be, the vehicle which the reader will 

 first picture to himself, for the Victoria, with a seat in 

 front for the driver, came afterwards. The earliest 

 example now in question was a pony phaeton to hold 

 two, one of whom drove." — p. 48. 



The Phaeton : 



"The phaeton had, in fact, already (1794) come into 

 vogue, though, so far as can be ascertained in the early 



