CURTAIN’S ANCESTOR
There is in the National Museum of Royal Coaches in Lisbon, one coach which probably gave inspiration to the motor-car hood-maker. It is the one which Philip of Spain brought with him when he became King of Portugal. He left Lisbon in 1619, but the coach remained behind. The chassis is marvellously heavy and unwieldy, very far removed from the pres-ent-day motor-car. But it is the curtains, or windscreens that are the most amusing part of this 300-year-old conveyance. For Don Phillip’s carriage is supplied with little six-pane glass windows, mounted in leather, fastening to the roof by means of straps and buckles, and capable of being put up or taken down at the will of the traveller —a true forerunner of the motor-car side-curtain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 7
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127CURTAIN’S ANCESTOR Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 7
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