The
term does not even mean “driver.” Originally the term Chauffeur comes from the
French language, where “chauffer” means to stoke, and “chauffeur” is therefore a
stoker. The reason for this is that historically, the first automobiles, just as their early counterparts
in railroad rolling stock and watercraft, were driven by steam and needed
the driver – “le chauffeur” – to stoke the vehicle’s eng
ine, “le moteur.” You see, the
first generation of motorcars were powered by gasoline (“petrol”) and relied on preheated
“hot tubes” located in the cylinder head to start up the engine: this was in the
days before electrical ignition. So the original "Chauffeur" was essentially the heater of those tubes, priming the
system at the beginning of the trip and counting on the engine’s compression cycle
to keep the tubes continuously heated to the right temperature. Being a chauffeur has come a long way since then and has developed into a service
industry. We no longer need to heat the tubes. We are there, amongst other things,
to provide a positive experience for the traveler, a concierge on the road in the modern day i find it very helpful to the community that needs assistance to be driven around the city.On the tourism industry i find a catch when they need a driver" what they must think about is Gates chauffeur services" in order to take them around the city.
