Spotted at the Norfolk Rural Life Museum at Gressenhall, this Norton hearse "consists of a sidecar chassis with wooden platform on which the coffin is laid. It was the brainchild of a local worthy to provide a speedy and cheap method of transporting the bodies of departed inmates for interment to the parishes of their origin.

This was too much even for the guardians of the day, and the vehicle was never used for the purpose for which it was intended. The same cannot be said, however, for the coffin, which was of the re-usable variety with a hinged side from which the pauper's body could be slid into its final resting place...."

Via: Yougonnadie Posterous