Horsebus

A horse-drawn carriage is a coach drawn by horses. In Switzerland horses buses are also called just like horse-drawn trams Rösslitram.

History

The world's first horse-drawn omnibus, the " à cinq sols Carrosses ", was introduced in 1662 in Paris at the suggestion of Blaise Pascal, but was reinstated after only a few years.

Bus lines with working horses were set up as draft animals only at the beginning of the 19th century in European cities again. Since the stations were often located outside the inner cities and the cities grew incessantly, the need for mass transit lines originated.

The start of operation of some bus services:

Much more comfortable than buses were horse trams at the then pavement. In large cities, tramways were in competition with the horse buses. In many large cities less the horses buses were set with the introduction of the tram, about 1888 in Münster ( Westphalia ) and in 1900 in Bielefeld.

In the 1920s, the last horse buses were shut down. During the last horse-drawn bus in London in 1914 and in Hamburg, was set in 1918, the horse buses in Berlin were able to hold a few years longer. On June 21, 1920 continued the Berlin last horse bus in daily traffic, on August 25, 1923 then the last horse-drawn omnibus Berlin in night traffic.

Car shape

You used great coaches, so car with suspension and hood. While Simon Kremser had used car with a tarp as a canopy, a type of car that is now named after him Kremser, most horses omnibuses had a closed car body and glass windows. The passenger compartment was usually on both sides each have a longitudinal Bank. Entry and exit was usually by a rear door, often with a small platform. Quite a few horses were double-decker buses. On the carriage roof, the benches were mounted back to back. Due to the different position of the gears inside and on the upper deck could be saved in height. On car roof led a small coiled external staircase.

Even in buses without passengers in the upper deck coach-box was often on the roof.

In regular service buses the horses were driven mostly as a one- or two-horse.