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From Phaetons to Phantoms: 100 years of coach building

Thursday 17 8.00pmApril
2014

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Medina Theatre

Medina Theatre
Fairlee Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 2DX

01983 823884

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From Phaetons to Phantoms: 100 years of coach building

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Vectis Decorative and Fine Arts Society Lecture

Doors open at 7.15pm. Tea, coffee and bar are available before the lectures which begin at 8.00pm.

We ask you to be seated by 7.55pm. They finish at approximately 9.15-9-30pm Guests are welcome at a cost of £7 and £2 for students.


The first bodies to be built on early motor cars were provided by the existing carriage makers. Most of these “cars” were really carriages with added motors: and we still talk of “carriageways” and “coachwork”. This lecture will describe some common types of carriage, trace how they influenced car design, say something of the skills involved, and illustrate coachwork design in its extravagant heyday of the first half of the 20th century.

Lecturer profile: Clive Barham Carter
A retired teacher of history at Charterhouse with a degree in History and Egyptology, Clive Barham Carter bought his first pre-war Rolls-Royce (then half the price of a Mini) while still at Cambridge: and kept it in flagrant breach of university rules, wearing a chauffeur’s cap as camouflage. He has since had several Rolls and Bentleys in succession, and lectured frequently on the history of the motor car. His present car, a 1933 Rolls-Royce Limousine which he has had for over 30 years, is used for rallies, picnics and weddings of family and friends.



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