Buckboard from which the rear body had been removed and replaced with a load-carrying bed. These home-built dual purpose passenger- and load-carrying vehicles were the precursors of the factory-built 'utility' or 'pickup truck'. A further "buckboard" example are Cyclecars, such as the Smith Flyer, that were also referred to as 'Buckboard Cars'. Buckboard A buckboard is a four-wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. The "buckboard" is the front-most board on the wagon that could act as both a footrest for the driver and protection for the driver from the horse's rear
Phaeton (carriage) outskirts of Nice, in the south of France. There is a print of the monarch enjoying her morning excursions on page 490 of the "Illustrated London News" of 10 April 1897. In addition, there is a photograph in the Royal Collection, dated 1898. There are also other photographs, using a black donkey, taken at Windsor Castle. Bolshevik revolutionaries used a phaeton to escape after carrying out the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery. Valerie, Lady Meux would startle London Society by driving herself in a high phaeton drawn by zebras. In the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility", the character Mr. Willoughby drives