The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers is one of the
Livery Companies of the
City of London
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. An organisation of Coachmakers and
Wheelwrights petitioned for incorporation in 1630. The petition was granted almost fifty years later, in 1677, when a
Royal Charter
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was granted to the Coachmakers. (The Wheelwrights were separately incorporated in 1670.) As coaches have been replaced by cars, the Coachmakers' and Coach Harness Makers' Company has lost its role as a body responsible for controlling the quality of coaches. Instead, it promotes the automobile industry, and also supports various charities.
The Coachmakers' and Coach Harness Makers' Company ranks seventy-second in the
order of precedence
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for Livery Companies. Its motto is ''Surgit Post Nubila Phœbus'', Latin for ''The Sun Rises After The Clouds''.
See also
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Coachbuilder
A coachbuilder or body-maker is someone who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles.Construction has always been a skilled trade requiring a relatively lightweight product with sufficient strength. The manufacture of necessarily ...
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Coach (carriage)
A coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside. The driver h ...
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Horse harness
Horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a vehicle or another type of load.
There are two main categories of horse harness: (1) the "breaststrap" or "breastcollar" design, and (2) the collar and hames design. For light work, such as ...
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Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers
1677 establishments in England