An American four-wheeled two-seated pleasure carriage, the seats being of similar design and facing forwards; also, a motor-carriage of similar structure.
Originally applied to an adaptation of the Surrey cart (an English pleasure cart with an open spindle seat first built in the county of Surrey) introduced into the U.S.A. by J. B. Brewster & Co. of New York in 1872 (The Hub, March 1882).
1885. St. Joseph (MO) Weekly Herald, 1 Jan., 7/3. Last Sunday Mr. Raymond, accompanied by two other gentlemen and three ladies, drove from Bridgeport to Milford in his handsome six-seated English Surrey, drawn by a spanking pair of grays for a ‘shore dinner’ at ‘Smith’s.’
1896. Howells, Idyls in Drab, 34. Hacks and barouches, and light, wood-coloured surreys and phaetons.
1896. Cosmopolitan, XX. 420/1. The Hill locomotor…. In design the vehicle is a canopy-top surrey with two seats.
