Cabriolet

A Cabriolet is a light horse drawn vehicle with two wheel and is designed to be dawn by a single horse. The carriage has a single hood that can cover the two occupants, one of whom is the driver. The driver was known as a ”tiger’ and stood on the rear platform and held onto the tassel straps.

            The carriage has a large rigid apron gracefully upward curving shafts. The design was developed in France in the eighteenth century and quickly replaced the Heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London. Hence the name cab which is the shortened version of cabriolet.