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    usually owner-driven. Coaches are a special category within carriages. They are carriages with four corner posts and a fixed roof. Two-wheeled war chariots...
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    hackney carriages have also been exported for use in other countries. The origins of the word hackney in connection with horses and carriages are uncertain...
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  • During this time, the design of gun carriages evolved only slowly, with the trend being towards lighter carriages carrying barrels that were able to throw...
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    postilion-driven. So too are the five Ascot Landaus, smaller and lighter carriages with basket-work sides, which are used each year (as their name suggests)...
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    State Coach is an enclosed, four-horse-drawn carriage used by the British Royal Family. It is the traditional horse-drawn coach in which the British monarch...
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    were still in revenue service on the British railway network in 2020, however, as of 7 April 2021, 300 carriages have been sent for scrap. Under the chairmanship...
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    The maintenance requirements of British Rail's rolling stock was reduced as newer vehicles, such as the Mark 3 carriages, were introduced that were designed...
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    to trace the history of the carriages, as detailed on plaques in each one. There are currently eleven Pullman carriages, which are restored and operational...
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    The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight-horse-drawn carriage used by the British royal family. Commissioned in 1760 by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st...
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    Phaeton". Carriages of Britain. "Trooping the Colour (The Queen's Birthday Parade)" Archived 2006-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, The British Army official...
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    new royal train of five carriages, each 52 feet (16 m) long, comprising the royal saloon in the centre and saloon carriages at either end. The Morning...
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    for enclosed formal carriages with two seats after the suspension system changed from leather straps to steel springs. The carriage was designed around...
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    (Dutch royal carriage). Private coach: a very expensive cumbersome 17th century luxury replaced as they were developed by light fast carriages except on...
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    The Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage is a converted Ordnance, BL, 12 pdr 6 cwt, MK II, gun carriage which has been used in the UK to bear the coffin...
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    Royal Mews (category Carriage museums in England)
    people live and work, and where carriages and cars are in daily use supporting the work of the monarch as head of state. The titular head of the Royal...
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    Brougham.: 24–25  In time, second-hand clarences came to be used as hackney carriages, earning the nickname growler from the sound they made on London's cobbled...
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    the coach. Gilby, Sir Walter, Bart. (1903). "Early Carriages and Roads". London: Vinton and Co. Media related to 1902 State Landau at Wikimedia Commons...
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    2015. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Australian State Coach. Australian State Coach at downau.com (with images) Carriages at royal.gov.uk v t e...
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    in 1938, carriages Marks IV and V were converted to 25-pounder Ordnance QF Mark 1 on Carriage Mark 1. 18-pounder Guns served with the British Expeditionary...
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    the royal family. Senior members of the Royal Household follow in other carriages. The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment provides a Sovereign's Escort...
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    "Queen's new state coach celebrates British history". ITV. Foster, Max; Said-Moorhouse, Lauren; Davey-Attlee, Florence (9 April 2023). "Carriages, Crown Jewels...
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    Derby Litchurch Lane Works in England, it is based on the British Rail Class 158. Twenty carriages were built in 1990/91. All were painted in the same Regional...
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    The British Rail Mark 4 is a class of passenger carriages built for use in InterCity 225 sets on the East Coast Main Line between King's Cross, Leeds...
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    Limbers and caissons (category Carriages and mountings)
    often carried between the two pieces of the trail. The British developed a new system of carriages, which was adopted by the French, then copied from the...
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    Londoners had wanted a faster alternative to the slow 4-wheeled hackney carriages, but the hackney proprietors had an exclusive license to carry passengers...
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    The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting...
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    heads of state. They were followed by the High Commissioners of Commonwealth states and the representatives of foreign delegations. Six carriages carried...
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    Lady Louise Windsor (category British Anglicans)
    up carriage driving, a sport popularised in Britain by her grandfather, Prince Philip. In May 2017, she was responsible for leading the carriages of the...
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    their work clothes. Carriages were built specially made for pallbearers so that 6 people can proceed comfortably or two closed carriages would be used. The...
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    The Scottish State Coach is an enclosed, four-horse-drawn carriage used by the British Royal Family. The coach was built by Adams & Hooper in 1830 for...
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