Centuries of Luxury Transportation Have Brought us Here – to KLS November 18, 2014
Luxury transportation goes back to Ancient Rome, when porters would carry the elite on litters, or lectica. The limousines of antiquity were usually chairs or beds – sometimes closed; sometimes open – atop platforms held aloft by carrying poles. The same basic designs were called jiao in China, palanquin in India, and a whole host of other names in countries and cultures around the world. They eventually lost their appeal, in many places replaced by horse-drawn carriages before automobiles arrived…