As a
car body style, a brougham was initially a vehicle similar to a
limousine but with an outside seat in front for the
chauffeur and an enclosed cabin behind for the passengers. As such, it was a version of the
town car but, in its earliest incarnation, with the sharply squared rear end of the roof and the forward-curving body line at the base of the front of the passenger enclosure that was characteristic of the nineteenth-century brougham carriage on which the car style was based.
Electric cars Brougham In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the brougham body style with an outside chauffeur was popular with electric cars. At that time, there were more than 200 manufacturers of these cars in the United States. In the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the front of the body and the chauffeur were often deleted from the design, with controls placed inside for the owner to operate the vehicle. Despite the resulting
coupé style, the result was still called a "brougham", causing the term to be applied to a two-door closed vehicle similar to a coupé, especially one electrically driven. =="Brougham" as a model name or trim level==