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Where did the word "saloon".
This word of five letters we use all the time, because the sedan - the most popular in the Russian body type. Meanwhile, the origin of the term remains opaque to us. Moreover, it is difficult to understand some of the language came to us this word - the Germans, for example, referred to the same body type "limousine».
So where did the word "sedan»?
According to one version, it appeared in southern Italy - the so-called palanquins, a kind of stretcher premium. The simplest of them looked like a chair with two nailed to it handles the most complex looked like a small carriage without wheels and horses. In any case, the passenger sitting inside ("sit" in Italian will sedere) in the chair (a "chair" will sede) - and that's a primitive vehicle over time has become "sitting" name.
Will 4 photos and some letters
Source avto.vesti.ru
In one version of the litter "arrived" to Europe from South America, where the Spaniards assembled, the idea from the Inca tribes, on the other - it was invented in Asia. Such a "form of transport", by the way, is still popular during wedding ceremonies in China.
Coaches, by the way, be remembered not for nothing. When they began to do in more and more, along with the luxurious many-crews were very compact, on one or two people. Externally they resembled delivered to the wheels palanquin sedan - it is not surprising that the word "saloon" stuck to the coach with a short and high body characteristic shape.
From here to the car remained a single step. And he did it in 1899, Louis Renault - one of the founders of the French company of the same name. His wife, tired of the raise, then lower the convertible top family Renault Type B - and found Louis existing chassis short and high body, thus turning into a self-propelled car sedan. However, we would not have stood a language called the Type B sedan with two doors, one row of seats ... But then a sedan understood just closed car - it is then started orgy coupes, wagons and hatchbacks ...
Body Renault Type B - the first car with a hardtop - the shape is indeed very similar to the "body" palanquin.
Officially, Louis Renault a Type B sedan did not call - and other automakers have not used the term until 1911, when the name of Sedan received the new model is now forgotten American brand Speedwell. Doors from that machine was still two, but places - for four. It was after the appearance of Speedwell Sedan word "saloon" gradually began to take us to the usual meaning: a car with a hardtop, which is based on three racks, with two or more rows of seats and a full-isolated from the interior storage compartment. However, before the advent of the familiar three-volume silhouette it took another 20 years. After initially luggage piled in a separate carrying case, a kind of a huge suitcase, attached to the body or directly to the frame. And only in the early thirties luggage compartment "moved" into the body: it is believed that the first "real" sedan became the body that London firm Barker developed in 1930 for installation on the chassis of Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental.
Representatives of the Rolls-Royce themselves encourage their customers to order unique body is the firm Barker, whose designers was the author of the first "real" sedan.
Interestingly, in many countries the word "saloon" - unlike Russia - so plainly and did not stick. For example, the British prefer to call this body type word saloon, the French site of mark Renault Laguna sedan designated as Laguna berline, and in Germany even an inexpensive sedan like the Renault Logan will be mentioned in the announcement of the sale as a limousine!
However, regardless of the name is "trehobemnik" with a separate trunk for many years is the most popular car body. Over time, he developed the exotic relatives like hardtop (the same as the sedan, but without the central rack) or fastback (sloping roofline that resembles a hatchback, but still has a cabin isolated from the trunk). A car fans can now watch for disputing about how properly to use the terms "two-door sedan" and "four-door coupe» ...
Today, budget car - it is usually just a sedan.
By the way, connoisseurs of history and geography surely interest, not whether the word "saloon" attitude to the city Sedan, under which 150 years ago, the key battle of the Franco-Prussian War. The French then lost miserably - and some argue that it is for this reason that the descendants of the defeated at Sedan soldiers prefer to use the word "Berlin". Indeed, there is a version that in the 19th century was made in Sedan coach considered the best, which is why any coach in time became known as "sedan." But most researchers are seriously trying to understand the question, consider this version of far-fetched, but the similarity of the word "saloon" with the name of the city obyanyayut coincidence.
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So where did the word "sedan»?
According to one version, it appeared in southern Italy - the so-called palanquins, a kind of stretcher premium. The simplest of them looked like a chair with two nailed to it handles the most complex looked like a small carriage without wheels and horses. In any case, the passenger sitting inside ("sit" in Italian will sedere) in the chair (a "chair" will sede) - and that's a primitive vehicle over time has become "sitting" name.
Will 4 photos and some letters
Source avto.vesti.ru
In one version of the litter "arrived" to Europe from South America, where the Spaniards assembled, the idea from the Inca tribes, on the other - it was invented in Asia. Such a "form of transport", by the way, is still popular during wedding ceremonies in China.
Coaches, by the way, be remembered not for nothing. When they began to do in more and more, along with the luxurious many-crews were very compact, on one or two people. Externally they resembled delivered to the wheels palanquin sedan - it is not surprising that the word "saloon" stuck to the coach with a short and high body characteristic shape.
From here to the car remained a single step. And he did it in 1899, Louis Renault - one of the founders of the French company of the same name. His wife, tired of the raise, then lower the convertible top family Renault Type B - and found Louis existing chassis short and high body, thus turning into a self-propelled car sedan. However, we would not have stood a language called the Type B sedan with two doors, one row of seats ... But then a sedan understood just closed car - it is then started orgy coupes, wagons and hatchbacks ...
Body Renault Type B - the first car with a hardtop - the shape is indeed very similar to the "body" palanquin.
Officially, Louis Renault a Type B sedan did not call - and other automakers have not used the term until 1911, when the name of Sedan received the new model is now forgotten American brand Speedwell. Doors from that machine was still two, but places - for four. It was after the appearance of Speedwell Sedan word "saloon" gradually began to take us to the usual meaning: a car with a hardtop, which is based on three racks, with two or more rows of seats and a full-isolated from the interior storage compartment. However, before the advent of the familiar three-volume silhouette it took another 20 years. After initially luggage piled in a separate carrying case, a kind of a huge suitcase, attached to the body or directly to the frame. And only in the early thirties luggage compartment "moved" into the body: it is believed that the first "real" sedan became the body that London firm Barker developed in 1930 for installation on the chassis of Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental.
Representatives of the Rolls-Royce themselves encourage their customers to order unique body is the firm Barker, whose designers was the author of the first "real" sedan.
Interestingly, in many countries the word "saloon" - unlike Russia - so plainly and did not stick. For example, the British prefer to call this body type word saloon, the French site of mark Renault Laguna sedan designated as Laguna berline, and in Germany even an inexpensive sedan like the Renault Logan will be mentioned in the announcement of the sale as a limousine!
However, regardless of the name is "trehobemnik" with a separate trunk for many years is the most popular car body. Over time, he developed the exotic relatives like hardtop (the same as the sedan, but without the central rack) or fastback (sloping roofline that resembles a hatchback, but still has a cabin isolated from the trunk). A car fans can now watch for disputing about how properly to use the terms "two-door sedan" and "four-door coupe» ...
Today, budget car - it is usually just a sedan.
By the way, connoisseurs of history and geography surely interest, not whether the word "saloon" attitude to the city Sedan, under which 150 years ago, the key battle of the Franco-Prussian War. The French then lost miserably - and some argue that it is for this reason that the descendants of the defeated at Sedan soldiers prefer to use the word "Berlin". Indeed, there is a version that in the 19th century was made in Sedan coach considered the best, which is why any coach in time became known as "sedan." But most researchers are seriously trying to understand the question, consider this version of far-fetched, but the similarity of the word "saloon" with the name of the city obyanyayut coincidence.
ALL. You can kick.
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