It was a carry-over from the original horse-drawn carriages.
The average servant or livery worker bathed infrequently due to living in the days before indoor plumbing was common for everyone, hence the open air cab but the enclosed space for the rich and well to do gentry.
This carried over into automobiles. Since automobiles and horses shared the same roads for a decade or two, the horse carriage drivers now took care of the newfangled automobile and the horses too, and he still smelled like horseshit possibly
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