Sunday, March 30, 2008
Welcome to limousine history!
We will show you in this blog how limousine services came to grow into what we know it to be today: luxurious chauffeured transportation. How did it start? what type of carts, vehicles and cars were used? how did it become a service to be hired? who used to uds this service and who is using it today? lots and lots of questions which we will answer soon in this blog.....
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With something as stylish and opulent as a limousine, it is no surprise that limos originated in France. Many hundreds of years ago, shepherds in Limousine, France, developed a hooded over garment to protect themselves from the rain and cold which they called a 'limousine'. In the 1900s when carriages were first emerging, a similar motivation lead to a cover being developed to create covered traveling compartments. There was also a Parisian coach builder from Limousine who may have been responsible for the word limousine or limo applying to covered coaches, which were of course always chauffeur driven. What would be amazing to those looking forward into the 21st century from a hundred years ago, would be the metamorphosis that the stylish and sophisticated limousines of the 1900s have undergone. It’s not just cars that are being used as limousines now either, you will find fire engine limousines, ambulance limousines, plane limousines and even train carriage limousines!
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