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 (1883) 1914. Mr Frank Bibby, gave the charity money to buy the "Phaeton" and to refit her at Birkenhead as a training ship. The "Phaeton" was renamed TS "Indefatigable" and moored off New Ferry in Liverpool on 15 January 1914. The previous "Indefatigable" had been condemned by the Inspector of Training Ships in 1912 as unfit, and was towed to the West Float at Birkenhead on 5 January 1914, and sold for scrap on 26 March. The figurehead of William IV from the old "Indefatigable" was transferred to the ex-"Phaeton". An Admiralty warrant for a Blue Ensign defaced with a liver