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Professional Cars

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Cadillac Chassis

1952-1953

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1952

Eureka (USA) various commercial vehicles for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the examples below; in addition to the illustrated models, a service car was also offered. Eurekas commercial cars were available in four different versions: the 3-way, the rear loader, the combination coaches, and the ambulances.

dr52euam.JPG (8235 bytes)

dr52eud7.JPG (3038 bytes)    dr52eud6.JPG (4493 bytes)
Eureka Chieftain ambulance, with full-size medicine cabinet
(lower left)  and low entrance step (lower right)

52euk.JPG (20018 bytes)     dr52euln.JPG (10303 bytes)
Eureka Chieftain Landau;  two versions were available: the 3-way
servicing funeral coach or the combination ambulance/funeral coach

 
dr52eud4.JPG (5300 bytes)    dr52eud3.JPG (7994 bytes)    dr52eud5.JPG (7634 bytes)
(left) Regular, rear-loading funeral coach table; (center) electric carrier, operated through
side door or rear doors; (right) the 3-way carrier seen from the side door

dr52euli.JPG (9384 bytes)    dr52eud2.JPG (3448 bytes)
Eureka Chieftain limousine;  again, two versions were available: the 3-way
servicing funeral coach or the combination ambulance/funeral coach
Folding attendant's seat (right) allows conversion to ambulance configuration

dr52eufc.JPG (7290 bytes)

52s&sfc.jpg (10908 bytes)

    
Above 2 rows: Eureka Chieftain flower car

 

 

Meteor (USA)

52mete.JPG (18984 bytes)

    

 

Miller (USA)

52milr.JPG (20696 bytes)

 

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA)

       52H&E.JPG (18767 bytes)      52SSlan.jpg (7913 bytes)

52sshrs.jpg (8138 bytes)
S&S Knickerbocker hearse combination

52SSflc.jpg (7546 bytes)    Dr52flcr.jpg (11244 bytes)
The special chrome trim on the front of the roof was unique
to S&S cars; they were called "Date Marks"

52SSambint.jpg (6783 bytes)

 

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) Various commercial vehicles on Cadillac chassis for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the example below.

 

52sup.JPG (19456 bytes)    52supam.JPG (4944 bytes)

52SUAM3.JPG (3312 bytes)    52SUAM4.JPG (4288 bytes)

 

 

[Unknown, Europe] Special, ornate hearse with lamps at each corner of roof. Photo I have shows Buick wheel covers and the emblems under the headlights mounted upside-down!

[Unknown, USA] Roving TV studio car on Series 75 limousine, with blacked-out rear windows and back light to prevent spurious light reflections on the TV monitors. The car features two roof-mounted turrets [tank machine-gun turrets], over two sliding roof panels. Mounted on roller bearings on each of these turrets (giving 360 degree rotation as required) are the TV camera and the transmission antenna; each has its own operator who can stick his whole upper body thru the open trap doors. Rear passenger area of the limo was brim-full of various TV equipment. There was a gasoline-powered generator in the trunk. The whole thing was a convenient and sophisticated rolling TV studio. The chief of outdoor TV operations for NBC at the time was C.H. Colledge, who designed the car.

 

1953

Eureka (USA) various commercial vehicles for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the examples below;

53flceu3.jpg (11867 bytes)

53flceur.jpg (10497 bytes)    53flc.jpg (9355 bytes)

53flc2.JPG (8669 bytes)    53flc3.JPG (7227 bytes)

 

Meteor (USA)

53MeteorHrs2.jpg (37484 bytes)

 

Miller, A.J. (USA) Various commercial vehicles such as ambulances, hearses and flower cars.  Some examples are shown below.

53MilrHrs2.jpg (38922 bytes)

   
Miller combination coach

53mlrf.jpg (5214 bytes)    53mlrf2.jpg (5912 bytes)
End loading view (left) and side loading view (right)

53mlrc.jpg (9938 bytes)
Miller flower car

53mlre.jpg (10235 bytes)
Miller ambulance

S&S Commercial Cars by Hess & Eisenhardt

   
S&S Superline Victoria landau hearse

53SS1.jpg (13289 bytes)

 

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) Various commercial vehicles on Cadillac chassis for the ambulance and funeral trades, like the example below.  The survivor, below the artist's view, is a special wagon said to be one of  five built by Superior for one of the big bands that were popular in the early fifties.  The five wagons drove in caravan as the band toured the country with their act.

 

53hrs1.jpg (8642 bytes)    53hrs2.jpg (7725 bytes)

dr53suph.JPG (7655 bytes)

dr53supw.JPG (7344 bytes)    dr53sulo.JPG (6380 bytes)
Photos: Internet, 1999; on the right is the Superior logo I.D. plate on this car,
which has been butcgered; the modified roofline uses sections from a late ‘50’s Chrysler station wagon

53supr1.jpg (8388 bytes)    53supr2.jpg (8165 bytes)

53supr3.jpg (8118 bytes)    53supr4.jpg (7584 bytes)
The red ambulance:  another survivor found on the Internet

53firetrk.jpg (17208 bytes)
This car?

53suphrs.jpg (9618 bytes)
This Superior hearse belongs to a member of the Professional Car Society (PCS)
a club that groups together enthusiasts of commercial cars on Cadillac and other chassis

dr53sup.jpg (10943 bytes)

53hrs.jpg (9405 bytes)
Note how the non-functional landau bars have been mounted on the wrong sides of the surviving hearse (right)
Enthusiast Jim Crabree says that landau irons sometines get reversed (in error) after a paint job or other repair
[ Photo: Book, Cadillac by Stephen Salmieri (cropped image) ]


Unidentified hearse; possibly by Superior

Dr52amb.jpg (9854 bytes)
Superior ambulance (promotional photo)

    

    
These two rows:  1953 Superior Flower Car
[ Photo: © 2012, Cunningham Classic Cars, UK ]

 

 

 

Return to The (New) Cadillac Database© Index Page
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or select "Professional Cars" years from the table below

 

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1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942

WW2 years

1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999-up

 

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