Surrey (carriage)

File:Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum August 2015 17 (1909 Studebaker surrey).jpg

A 1909 Studebaker surrey on display at the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum in August 2015

A surrey is a "popular American doorless, four-wheeled carriage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated (for four passengers), surreys had a variety of tops, ranging from the rigid, fringed canopy-top … to parasol and extension tops." The seats were traditional, spindle-backed (often upholstered), bench seats. Before the advent of automobiles, these were horse-drawn carriages.

In popular culture

It was famously celebrated in the song "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from the musical Oklahoma!.

Gallery

• Surrey (PSF).svg

  Line-art representation of a horse-drawn surrey.

• MHV Knox Surrey 1904 01.jpg

  1904 Knox Surrey, an early adaptation of the concept to the motorized era.

• 1890 Carriage Model.jpg

  1890 Canadian open-top surrey once used in Vancouver.

See also

• Types of carriages