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 (1782) up. The Nagasaki Harbour Incident plays a role in the novel "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell. However this depiction is highly fictionalised; the ship in the novel is "HMS Phoebus", the incident occurs in 1800 and finding no Dutch ships the "Phoebus" of the novel bombards Dejima. The Nagasaki Harbour Incident plays a role in the novel "Blood of Tyrants" by Naomi Novik. This depiction is historical fantasy; the Japanese sink HMS "Phaeton" with dragons stationed at Nagasaki at the time. Notes Citations References HMS Phaeton (1782) HMS "Phaeton" was a 38-gun, "Minerva"-class fifth rate