Landaulet
A landaulet or landaulette is a car body style, "an enclosed sedan or coupé with a folding top at the extreme rear quarter, over the rear seat."[1]
A Landaulet carriage is a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau carriage, "an enclosed carriage with a top that could be folded down, in essence, the first convertible."[1] The landaulet retained the rear half of the landau's two-part folding top.
Like many other coachbuilding styles, the landaulet was transferred from horse-drawn carriages to motor carriages.
A landaulet is a chauffeured vehicle. Since World War II conventional use has been restricted to formal processions by dignitaries when the dignitary's security can be assured. Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, and Pope Benedict XVI used landaulets based on Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
The Maybach division of Daimler AG showed a landaulet concept car at the Middle East International Auto Show in November 2007.[2] They have since added the landaulet to their 2009 model line.[3]
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[edit] Landaulets
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1816 Carriage
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1898 Panhard-Levassor
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1908 De Dion-Bouton
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1911 Adler
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Lancia Flaminia for the President of the Italian Republic
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1966 Rolls-Royce Phantom V
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Peugeot 607 Paladine
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2006 Castagna Imperial Landaulet, so named despite no evidence of the rear roof being able to retract.
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[edit] See also
- Landau (automobile)
- Landau (carriage)
- Town car - the opposite with front seats open and the rear compartment closed
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Merriam-Webster new book of word histories, Merriam-Webster, Inc 1991 Google preview
- ^ Car Body Design - Maybach Landaulet Study
- ^ Left Lane News: 2009 Maybach 62S Landaulet
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