Old Photograph Vintage Car And Chauffeur Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a vintage car, driver, and Chauffeur in Dundee, Scotland. A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine. A woman employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle is a chauffeuse. The term chauffeur comes from the French term for stoker because the earliest automobiles, like their railroad and sea vessel counterparts, were steam powered and required the driver to stoke the engine. Only the very wealthy could afford the first automobiles, and they generally employed chauffeurs rather than driving themselves.



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