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TABLE OF CONTENTS

i. Welcome!
ii. Foreword
iii. Introduction

1.The Origins of the Limousine
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. The Traditions of Riding in the Back Seat
3. Chauffeurs
4. The Coachbuilders
5. The Factory Limousines
6. The Commercial Limousine Operators
7. Getting What You Want -- Buying a Limousine
8. The Limousine -- Inside and Out
9. Building a Stretch Limousine
10. Exotic Limousines
11. The Classics and the Not So Classic: Celebs, High Rollers and Their Limousines
12. Presidential Rides
13. Fit for a King -- Royal Limousines
14. Limousine Etiquette and How to Enjoy Riding in the Back Seat
15. The Cultured Limousine
16. Glossary (definitions as seen from the back seat of a limousine)

Photo Gallery

1. Welcome
2. Back Seat Riding
3. Cadillac Pages
4. Lincoln Pages
5. Lehmann-Peterson Pages
6. Limousines Pages
7. Reader Pages

See also:
Chauffeur and
Passenger stories

Used by permission Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE Press, Copyright 2002 www.sae.org and by private contributors, as noted.

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Copyright 2002
by
Michael L. Bromley

All Rights Reserved

 

Limousine Definitions

Limo
There is no such word (except when used with the prefix, "white" or the suffix, "Bob")

Limo skip
What every commercial chauffeur eventually discovers of certain passengers. Mark
Wright explains that chauffeurs "need to learn it the hard way. The chauffeur doesn't
know why, but suddenly, something's wrong with the car... it's skipping... he pulls over
and stops and the car's still jumping, or worse yet, it stops, then starts and when the
car gets moving... He's just got to learn that that's one of the things people
do back there."

Limousin
Region of central France (formerly a province). The geographic reference is to
be preceded by "Le," as in "The" South.

Limousine
A chauffeured, luxury, closed motor car, with driver and passenger compartments
separated by a partition, and which is designed for passenger comfort.

Limousine Liberal
The peculiar, dysfunctional mixture of money, socialism, and limousines.
The Limousine Liberal loves the limousine but feels guilty about it
(guilt being a happy condition).

 

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