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1948

Miller (USA) Landau hearse

Schmidt & Bartelt (USA) Various professional cars converted from regular Fleetwood styles, like the examples below:

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA) Various bodies for the funeral and ambulance trades

[ Photos: Internet, 2008 ]

Superior (USA) Various bodies for the funeral and ambulance trades, including this one

(Above and below): This is the Superior limousine; it sold for $5,450

Unidfentified - USA ?

Versteegen (Netherlands) Cadillac aficionado, Jo Thewissen of Holland sent me in December 1999 a series of photos of custom Cadillac ambulances and hearses built in the forties, fifties and sixties by this relatively unknown Dutch coach-builder. The first of these (an ambulance on the 1948 Cadillac chassis) is shown below. Thanks for the pics and the information, Jo.

1949

Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) [see "S&S", below]

Miller (USA) Various commercial cars on Cadillac chassis for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the surviving example below:

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[These 4 photos: Internet]

This Miller combination ambulance/hearse was offered for sale on the Internet in 2002

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA)

This S&S features carved panels in the rear window recesses

S&S Knickerbocker 3-way bearse

[ Photo of a survivor: Internet 1999 ]

Superior (USA) Various other commercial vehicles for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the examples below:


The new Superior funeral coach with completely automatic "Side-o-Matic" table




[Left] The "Landau" hearse; [Right] rear-loading funeral coach


Lleft] combination coach; [Right] Service coach


Typical "Superor" bodies for the 1949 Cadillac commercial chassis

Superior landau hearse
[Photo: courtesy Frank Perch of the CML]

This funeral limousine is in pretty bad shape !

[Unknown, USA] Funeral coach.

Š 1998, Yann Saunders [aka Mr. Cadillac] and the Cadillac-LaSalle Club, Inc.
[ Background image: 1961 Crown Sovereign funeral car by Superior Coach Corporation ]

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