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Kristy said:
No, I mean "handsome." They are called that to differentiate them from "Hansom cabs," of the completely different design by Josef Hansom on which the driver sits/stands high up on the back.
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Never heard of that one....There's a Restaurant in York, Pa called "The Handsome Cab" so it could be a local usage or colloquial name.?

Brittannica lists Hansom, Curricle, Broughams, Caleche, Stagecoach, Chaise, Finacre, Landau, and 16 other named types but not "Handsome". The Cab is usually a two-seater under cover, so the driver does have to sit and work from above and behind. Usually they are powered by one horse.

Larger conveyances worked a pair, or four- or six-in-hand team.
The Russian Troika used a pair of wheelers and one leader.....always strikes me as odd. Those are the coaches you sometimes hear stories of....in the Vicious Winters on the Russian Steppe, wolves were said to chase sleighs for miles, to eat the horses.....and some stories suggest that a serf driver might get chucked out in the snow to slow the wolves down.
 
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A Steamer, The City Of Richmond stuck in the Ice off Baltimore, about 1960. These were the last of the cross-bay steamboats that carried tourists across to the Eastern Shore. There, a train could be had to carry people to the Atlantic Beaches. I have a paur of tickets and some other paperwork that belonged to a honeymooning couple taking a different boat from this same line about 1912. This Skipper is waiting on the IcebreakerFB_IMG_1701032696987.jpg
 
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