carriage step.

The drivers seat for a coachman was in front of the carriage body, while footmen stood on a footboard or sat on a seat behind the body. If either seat was raised on an iron frame and not built as part of the carriage body, it was given the name of dickey-seat. Originally, the dickey was in the rear, but by the early 1900s the front seat was being called a dickey. A ' was a place for luggage or other storage, and was sometimes built under a driver's