Rumble seat

As a rumble seat not regularly used seat in an automobile is called. You can securely mounted, may be removable or can be folded and should not consume much space in the vehicle not required condition. In large sedan and limousine a herausklappbarer from the backrest of the front seat or the vehicle floor chair is designated jump seat.

History

In the early days of the automobile, it was often to a removable, but sometimes permanently mounted, cushion took behind the driver after which a maximum of two passengers with their backs to the direction of space (for example, Oldsmobile Curved Dash, Packard Model A, B, C ). James Ward Packard took can claim to have this accessory first used on an automobile.

Resourceful bodies were built for models with center or rear mounted engine a hinged Notsitzbank for two courageous passengers in the splash guard completes the body forward. The upper half of the flap is in the open state, the back, the bottom, the leg supports. The driver's view is of course limited.

After the construction had prevailed with front engine Roadster and Speedster were sometimes equipped with a rear single seat. In the late 1910s, a particularly bold variant came to the fore: the lateral jump seat, the (mostly roadsters ) was pulled out like a drawer behind the door side of the body at two-seaters.

The rumble seat in closed vehicles

With the advent of large and very spacious Innenlenker in the 1910s is also asked for a better use of interior space. In the rear, wasteful was plenty of space available; a passenger did not even get far with your legs straight up to the back of the front seat, respectively. the separation approach. While the latter increasingly compartments and boxes was contained for special amenities such as a bar or a make-up set in the lower part, sometimes in the ground.

Salon arrangement

The term refers to the salon seating arrangement that corresponds to that in principle in today's minivans. Behind the front bucket seats are two further positioned so that a gap remains between them. It seems that later were used jump seats that could be folded up and sunk into the ground. These seats are normally on the rear door ( not sliding door still tailgate like the minivan ) accessible. The gap between the seats is the passage to a bench in the rear. The Salon arrangement is not limited to a specific body type and has been used mainly in large touring cars, limousines, Sedan and Brougham. Spread it was widespread in the years from about 1915 to 1925, especially from luxury manufacturers such as Packard and Pierce -Arrow.

The " mother house"

Most referred to the ironic term " mother house" a fold out the rear, uncovered, thinly padded, provisional seat or a bench for 1-2 people as it was characteristic of some roadsters and coupes from the 1920s and 1930s. Often, the open, padded on the inside of hinged cover forms the backrest. More luxurious versions reported side rails were pulled to the when closing the door. It was reached by the footboard with one or two steps mounted to the rear fender facilitated the entry and protect the paint from the footwear. There were even versions with a separate door (eg Rolls- Royce Phantom II Henley Roadster by Brewster ), and others had an additional fold-out windshield for the rear passengers, such as the Triumph 1800/2000 sport. Here, the disc formed, and the backrest in the closed position each have a part of the cover on the seat

In the UK, this seat Dickey seat is called, in the United States Rumble seat. Here had virtually every manufacturer in the early 1930s, a roadster, a convertible coupe (not foldable windscreen frame, fixed mounted, stable canopy and crank windows ) or a coupe with this configuration in the offer, sometimes as part of a more upmarket variant, such as the Ford Model A Deluxe. In the standard version of the rumble seat was extra charge.

As cars faster and thus have been streamlined, we decided not to jump seats, as they were too uncomfortable for the passengers. Also, the risk of accident to practically outside the car sitting was very large.