The spider phaeton, of American origin, was a light vehicle made for gentlemen drivers.
The most spectacular phaeton was the English four-wheeled high-flyer, the body of which consisted of a light seat for two, resting atop two sets of springs and reached by ladder.
The mail phaeton, used chiefly to convey passengers with luggage and as a traveling and posting carriage, was so named because it was constructed with mail springs originally designed for mail coaches.
My wife and I have just run down Piccadilly from the Tube in the pouring rain; the phaeton seats and matched bays are otherwise occupied, but the room transforms us instantly into the smouldering Lord Rotheringham and the devil-may-care Lady Dorinda, dining, scandalously, à deux.
Unlike Heyer's dexterity with the cut of a pelisse or the springs of a phaeton, these areas of inquiry are more than period colour added to bestow a gloss of authenticity: they contribute to the very fabric of the novel.
Another Greek myth relates that a scorpion caused the horses of the Sun to bolt when they were being driven for a day by the inexperienced youth Phaeton.
Then, conjuring up what we hoped was the sound of a phaeton being driven at a trot, we crossed with the light & followed the traffic uptown.
Charles Tough who used to care for the Four Hundred's carriages, told us that they've all been sold or given away to museums or collectors - all except a 90-year-old basket phaeton which Mr. Tough is caring for while the owners, the Misses Elizabeth and Mabel Hyde, find a museum willing to take it.
There she stationed herself in the King's path, "and either she wore a light blue dress and rode in a pink phaeton," Lever tells us, "or she wore a pink dress and rode in a blue carriage".
Talk story about the new custom-built Chrysler Imperial phaeton designed for transporting dignitaries in city welcoming parades.
The display of a two-seat wicker phaeton (an open carriage) from 1902 and some typical upper-class apparel from around 1890 — silk dresses for the ladies; summer suits and boater hats for the gentlemen — conjures its most refined aspect.
