Phaeton body Volkswagen introduced a vehicle with the name Phaeton, which has a typical four-door sedan body style. Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the USA from the mid–1920s and continuing into the first half of the 1930s was the dual cowl phaeton, with a cowl separating the rear passengers from the driver and front passenger. Phaetons fell from favour when closed cars and convertible body styles became
HMS Phaeton (1883) Preston firm for scrap. However, she was repurchased by the Admiralty in 1941 and renamed "Carrick II", and served as an accommodation hulk at Gourock throughout World War II. In 1946 she was sold for breaking up to Thos W Ward's in Preston, where she arrived on 24 January 1947. HMS Phaeton (1883) HMS "Phaeton" was a second class cruiser of the "Leander" class which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Napier in Glasgow, being laid down in 1880, launched in 1883 and completed in 1886. "The "Phaeton" has been tried in the Solent. At the previous