Description: This Private Drag (or coach) could seat fourteen people: four inside, eight on top, and two grooms on the back. The interior is upholstered with Moroccan leather and the boot contains zinc-lined boxes for food and a drawer for silverware. The windows have two insert panels. (The use of the solid panels indicated the owner was not aboard.) There are lights on either side. Private drags resembled the commerical coaches but were used exclusively for private coaching, especially picnics and race track outings. These vehicles required four to six well-matched horses to move them.In good weather, it was the servants who rode inside, but when the weather changed, the servants would ride outside, while the family rode inside.
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