:Surrey (carriage)
{{Short description|Horse-drawn carriage}}
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File:Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum August 2015 17 (1909 Studebaker surrey).jpg surrey on display at the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum in August 2015]]
A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated and able to hold four passengers, surreys had a variety of tops that included a rigid, fringed canopy, parasol, and extension."[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/575365/surrey Surrey]", Encyclopædia Britannica. (Retrieved 2014-02-03.) The seats were traditional, spindle-backed (often upholstered), bench seats. Before the advent of automobiles, these were horse-drawn carriages.
The name is short for "Surrey cart", named after Surrey in England, where they were first made.{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/Surrey|title=surrey | Etymology, origin and meaning of the name surrey by etymonline|website=www.etymonline.com}}
In popular culture
The American surrey was famously celebrated in the song "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from the musical Oklahoma!.
Gallery
File:Surrey (PSF).svg|Line-art representation of a horse-drawn surrey.
File:1890 Carriage Model.jpg|1890 Canadian open-top surrey once used in Vancouver.
File:1900 Spider Surrey, made by A. T. Demarest & Co., New York, New York.jpg|1900 Spider Surrey, New York
File:MHV Knox Surrey 1904 01.jpg|1904 Knox Surrey, an early adaptation of the concept to the motorized era.