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1950

Cadillac (USA): in that year's commercial car catalog were shown artist's views of the following models of professional cars typically built by the five best known specialist U.S. coach builders:

Left: A.J. Miller funeral car. Right: Eureka ambulance

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Left: Hess & Eisenhardt landau hearse. Right: Meteor Motor Car Co. funeral car

Superior funeral car

Miller, A.J. (USA) Various commercial cars such as ambulances, hearses, flower cars. A typical body style is shown below:

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA) Various commercial cars such as ambulances, hearses, flower cars. A typical body style is shown below:

S&S high headroom ambulance

Superior (USA) Various commercial cars such as ambulances, hearses, flower cars. A typical body style is shown below:

[Unknown, France] Conversion of a Series 75 Fleetwood limousine into movie camera-car. This information and the photos below are borrowed from France's NITRO Magazine issue for Oct-Nov, 2003.


Formerly owned by the Paris (France) mobvie company, Loca-Films, this Series 75 limousine has been converted to a camera-car, with the removal of the rear quarters; it features a custom roof platform (accessible by a ladder) which can carry a camera, some projectors and a cameraman; another platform is affixed under the front bumper and suspended by cables attached to the roof rack; a similar platform may be rigged also to the rear of the vehicle. which is seen here in Paris' Place de la Contrescarpe during the filming of Blake Edwards' The Great Race, in August 1964

[ All photos: Š NITRO Magazine, Oct-Nov, 2003 ]

1951

Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) picked up the rights to the S&S name when S&S closed down in 1942. They carried on with the line.



S&S Knickerbocker hearse
[ Photos : Internet ]

Meteor Motor Car Company (USA) Fire-chief limousine-style ambulance on Cadillac commercial chassis.

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) limousine style hearse

Illustration from original factory sales literature

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] This hearse was imported during the early years of U.S. army occupation of Germany after WW2.

S&S Knickerbocker hearse
[ apparently with German tags or possibly US Army on the Rhine ]

[Unknown, Europe?] Hearse with roof-mounted lamps at each corner; probably Belgian or Dutch.

[Unknown, Europe?] customized station-wagon hearse, featuring quad headlights [in 1951?] 1961 lower rear fenders sans skeg fins rear.

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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