Horse Sharaban (1906)
Four-wheeled horse-drawn sharaban in Windsor Castle in 1844
- This word has other meanings, see Wiktionary article “sharaban” .
Sharaban ( fr. Char à bancs - a cart with wooden benches) - type of open cart [1] . Appeared in France at the beginning of the XIX century . The barrels were made in the form of four-wheeled with transverse seats in several rows or single-seat two-wheeled carriages.
Drums were used for walks, country trips, hunting. Initially, they were harnessed by horses, later motor ones appeared.
They went out of use in the 1920s .
See also
- Wagon
- Maidan
Notes
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), Char-à-banc , Encyclopædia Britannica , vol. 5 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press , p. 855
- References: Joseph Jobé, Au temps des cochers , Lausanne, Edita-Lazarus, 1976. ISBN 2-88001-019-5