phaeton

A light, open-air, four-wheeled carriage, often drawn by two horses and having two seats. A vintage automobile used for touring purposes.

–Sophia Curran

//Because this Sunday when Ellen and the children came out of the front door, it was not the carriage waiting, it was Ellen’s **phaeton** with the old gentle mare which she drove and the stableboy that he had bought instead of the wild negro. And Judith looked once at the **phaeton** and realised what it meant and began to scream, screaming and kicking while they carried her back into the house and put her to bed.//

--AA (17)