Landaulet
A landaulet or landaulette is a car body style similar to a limousine, but with the passenger section covered by a convertible top. It was based on a carriage of similar style that was a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau. Landaulets are usually used by public figures in formal processions.
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Description
A landaulet carriage is a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau carriage The landaulet retained the rear half of the landau's two-part folding top.[1]
Like many other coachbuilding styles, the term landaulet was transferred from horse-drawn carriages to motor carriages.[2][3] A landaulet automobile has a passenger enclosure with a folding roof over the rear seats.[4] A separate section is at the front for the driver.[5][6] The condition of the driver's section may range from having no weather protection at all, as was often the case with early landaulets,[2][6] to being fully enclosed.[7]
A landaulet is a chauffeured vehicle. Since the Second World War, conventional use has been largely 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.
21st-century landaulets
The Maybach division of Daimler AG showed a landaulet concept car at the Middle East International Auto Show in November 2007.[8] They added the landaulet to their 2009 model line.[9] The Maybach division has since been discontinued.[10]
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1816 Carriage
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1898 Panhard-Levassor Landaulet type AL 1898
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1908 De Dion-Bouton
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1908 Matheson landaulet
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Lancia Flaminia for the President of the Italian Republic
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The Sunshine Special, the official state car used by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, preserved at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborne, Michigan
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Rolls-Royce Phantom IV, 4BP5.jpg
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Queen Elizabeth II in a landaulet in Duisburg, Germany
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Mercedes-Benz 600 landaulet
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Peugeot 607 Paladine
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VAZ-212183 Lada Niva/Bronto Landole
See also
- Landau (automobile)
- Landau (carriage)
- Town car – the opposite with front seats open and the rear compartment closed
Notes
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landaulets. |
- Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman Landaulet Exterior, Interior and Exhaust Sound in Full 3D HD on YouTube by hirudov. Retrieved 2013-08-04
- ↑ Merriam-Webster 1991, p. 358.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haajanen 2003, p. 92.
- ↑ Merriam-Webster 1991, pp. 358–359.
- ↑ References:
- Clough 1913, p. 185
- Georgano 1971, p. 216
- Merriam-Webster 1991, pp. 358–359
- Society of Automobile Engineers 1916
- Stein 1975, p. 753
- ↑ Clough 1913, p. 185.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Society of Automobile Engineers 1916.
- ↑ References:
- Georgano 1971, p. 216
- Merriam-Webster 1991, p. 358
- Stein 1975, p. 753
- ↑ Car Body Design 2007.
- ↑ Left Lane News 2008.
- ↑ Taylor 2011.
