I am interested in hearses, they are large funeral vehicles used to carry a coffin/casket from a church or funeral home to a cemetery.
Yeah, do you work at a funeral home or are you just someone who likes them?
i like them.. some people call hearses "funeral coaches"
interesting, I had a neighbor on my street who used to collect them. Do you know when they were first manufactured?
Hearse
A hearse is a vehicle used to carry the dead in a coffin/casket. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to very formal heavily decorated vehicles.
In the funeral trade of some countries hearses are called funeral coaches.
History.
The name is derived, through the French herse, from the Latin , which means a harrow. The funeral hearse was originally a wooden or metal framework, which stood over the bier or coffin and supported the pall. It was provided with numerous spikes to hold burning
no one to do so. The funeral service itself is almost invariably closed casket. Funeral homes are generally not used for funeral services, which are almost exclusively held in a church, cemetery, or crematorium chapel.
The deceased is usually transported from the funeral home to a church in a hearse, a specialized vehicle designed to carry casketed remains. The deceased is often transported in a procession (also called a funeral cortège), with the hearse, funeral service vehicles, and private automobiles traveling in a procession to the