Post chaise

Private individuals did own their own post chaises; some had their light chariots made with the coachman's seat removable.

Designed to withstand rapid long-distance travel, the post chaise should have been utilitarian, but private vehicles might be extravagantly decorated and finished.

[2] In a 1967 article in The Carriage Journal, published for the Carriage Association of America, Paul H Downing recounts that the word post is derived from the Latin postis which in turn derives from the word which means to place an upright timber (a post) as a convenient place to attach a public notice.

An artillery officer, John Trull, entered business in England in 1743 hiring out travelling carriages.

[2] The original French design was amended, a conventional pole was fitted, no driver was provided for — leaving a view through the front window for the passengers — and the horses were ridden by postilions or post-boys.

[2] Around the time Trull was introducing post-chaises to England Americans began to use the same name for what had been called a four-wheeled chaise.