Curricles, gigs and phaetons in the Regency

Ladies in a phaeton from Gallery of Fashion
by Nikolaus von Heideloff (1794)It is impossible to write a novel set in the late Georgian and Regency periods without knowing something about carriages. Otherwise you might send your hero driving around Hyde Park in the Georgian equivalent to a Ford Galaxy when you really meant him to be driving a Ferrari!
I have already blogged about travelling chariots here: Travelling chariots. This post looks at that all-important question: what type of carriage...