Phaeton (carriage) The Keystone Cops drove phaetons, either Model Ts or Model As. In Frances Burney's novel, "Evelina" (1778), young gentlemen race their phaetons on the public highways of Clifton, near Bristol, not without incident. In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mr Collins says of Lady Catherine De Bourgh's daughter, "she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies." In Anne Brontë's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848), Mr. Huntingdon drives a "light phaeton" that comes "bowling merrily up the lawn" (Ch. 18). The sporty character of the carriage reflects Huntingdon's devil-may-care
HMS Phaeton (1782) from "Hussar", captured a fort from the French at Sumenep on the island of Madura, off Java. The British lost three men killed and 28 wounded. Pellew sailed "Phaeton" home in August 1812, escorting a convoy of East Indiamen. For his services he received a present of 500 guineas and the thanks of the East India Company. In 1816, Capt. Frances Stanfell sailed "Phaeton" from Sheerness, bound for Saint Helena and the Cape of Good Hope. In April 1818, Capt. W. H. Dillon commissioned "Phaeton". In the autumn of 1818 Lieutenant John Geary, who had joined "Phaeton" at her re-commissioning,