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Coach (carriage)

The Gold State Coach of the British monarch

A coach is a carriage pulled by two or more horses as a team. It is driven by a coachman and/or one or more postilions. The carriage is usually closed (with a roof) and has four wheels.

Coach (carriage) Media

  • Catherine II's carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach (Hermitage Museum)

  • A Portuguese Royal Coach driver's uniform

  • Le Mail Français On verra dans l'intérieur du numéro la tenue des mails américains pris à la dernière « parade ». Cette photographie prise à la réunion de la Société des Guides montre le mail français, garni d'élégantes Parisiennes et attelé et conduit avec une impeccable correction

  • Coaches are nowadays also used on ceremonial occasions. Here, a coach is used to convey President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland during a state visit to Sweden.

  • Coach of King John V of Portugal, 18th century

  • Coach of a noble family, c. 1870

  • The London-Farringdon coach, 1835

  • Coach commissioned in 1837 for Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, pictured before the 2012 restoration (Imperial Museum of Brazil)

  • "The Grand Gala Berlin", a coach constructed in Rome for pontiff Leo XII in the years 1824–1826. Gregory XVI requested some important modifications.

  • A Gala Coupé, 18th century; Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

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