A wagonette or an omnibus (a generally archaic term) is a horse-drawn wagon for passenger transport. Two wooden benches along the right and left side of the wagon platform can hold several sitting people facing each other. The driver sits on a separate, front-facing bench.

The term carried over to motorized vehicles. The 1914 book Motor Body-building in all its Branches By Christopher William Terry, described a wagonette as having longitudinal seats in rows with either a rear door or side doors. The same book defined a shooting-brake

Shooting-brake

Shooting-brake, shooting brake or shooting break is a term for a car body style that has evolved through several distinct meanings over its history....

 as a wagonette provided with game and gun racks and accommodation for ammunition.

See also

• Bus
  Bus
  A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
  
   or autobus the later motorized multi-person vehicle
• Stagecoach
  Stagecoach
  A stagecoach is a type of covered wagon for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand. Widely used before the introduction of railway transport, it made regular trips between stages or stations, which were places of rest provided for stagecoach travelers...
  
  another type of horse drawn carriage for many people