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    Part 5 The dashboard

    Jan 19, 2022 4 minutes
    PETER STEVENS DESIGN BRIEFING

    BACK IN THE DAYS OF HORSE-DRAWN vehicles, those who sat on the seat at the front of the carriage endured a pretty unpleasant experience in bad weather when the horse threw up water and mud from its hooves. Country people fitted a barrier of either wood, leather or sacking to stop this muck from being ‘dashed up’. The first known use of the term dash-board (hyphenated in those days) dates from 1847 and it was carried over when carriages became horseless. One of the earliest automobiles was called the ‘Curved Dash’ Oldsmobile, a name derived from a small horse-drawn buggy.

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