Dogcart

A dogcart phaeton is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or a pair of horses with a carriage pole. The dogcart phaeton seats four people and is arranged as two back-to-back crosswise seats, called dos-à-dos, with two people facing forward and two others facing the rear. Though the word cart generally means a two-wheeled vehicle, the name dogcart stuck when the body style was mounted on four-wheeled phaeton undercarriages. Other names for specific or regional designs of four-wheel dogcarts include Alexandra dogcart, Continental dogcart, Eridge car, Four-wheeled Ralli car, French Derby cart, Malvern dogcart, Martin's dogcart, and Village phaeton. File:The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (1860) (14577445289).jpg|Four-wheel dog cart Image:Dos-a-Dos Style Carriage.jpg|Alexandra car, an American version of dogcart phaeton with dos-à-dos seating and a cut under for the forewheels File:1850 Break Dog-cart, Château de Chenonceau photo 1.jpg|Dogcart phaeton == In literature ==

Frequent references to dog-carts are made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his writings about fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, and by many other Victorian writers, as they were a common sight in that era. In Os Maias, the protagonist, Carlos, makes use of a dogcart "in great style" to move around Lisbon. == See also ==