1937
Cadillac and Fleetwood (USA) limited
edition commercial cars
 
Cadillac Series 60 commercial car chassis
[ no image ]
Series
37-75, 138" wheel base commercial chassis
Left: professional car front clip (similar to regular
Cadillac line)
 
Fleetwood style #7523L, 8-passenger touring car
[trunk], V-12 motor (left ???)
Fleetwood style #7503L (right) - no trunk
 
Fleetwood style #7523L and
#7533L, special 8-passenger Imperial Touring sedan and limousine
[ the bodies are identical but for the interior layout; the limousine has a
partition and division glass ]
Fleetwood style #8003L
Fleetwood style #8013L
Fleetwood style #8023L
Fleetwood style #8033L
La Salle flower car
Eureka (USA) Miscellaneous professional
cars for the ambulance and funeral trades. This was the company's 50th Anniversary year.
These vehicles were licensed under basic Heise patents #1721391 and #1845570 and
pending patent applications.
 
Eureka Chieftain hearse on Cadillac chassis
 
Chieftain model on La Salle chassis
  
A surviving Eureka flower car, offered for sale on
eBay in June, 2006
Meteor (USA) custom hearse, McC
p.210
 
This surviving ambulance was seen at a large swap
meet in Utica, MI, in June 1978
[ photos © 1978, Yann Saunders ]
It was still around, 30 years later
[ Internet photo ]
Miller, A.J. (USA) 12-seater, 10-window
Yosemite National Park tour bus; 10 were built on Series 75 chassis with 204" wheel
base; removable canvas top. Three are believed to have survived. One was in the fabled
Harrah collection, until after his death, when it was sold by auction. Another was offered
for sale for $3500 o.b.o. in the early Seventies by Joseph Schiro of San Jose, CA. I don't
know the whereabouts of the third unit.
The above color PC shows the Yosemite tour bus when
it was owned by the late Bill Harrah
The color postcard (right) is an artist's view of the
1937
Cadillac tour "bus", based on a period photo in B&W (left)
The Harrah tour bus has survived and will be restored (2000)
Not 100% sure of the coach-builder;
am guessing A.J. Miller who built a similar car on the LaSalle
chassis
Miller, A.J. (USA) Custom funeral car on
160" wheel base LaSalle chassis, McC p.212
Oldings Coachcraft
(Australia) Originally
exported from the United States as a commercial chassis, this La Salle
hearse is
fitted with a side valve V8 engine which originally saw service powering a Cadillac tank.
It's panels were manufactured by Holden, whilst the coachwork was completed by Oldings
Coachcraft, in Glebe. It has a floor mounted, three speed transmission. Restoration has
taken approximately three years to complete with virtually all systems, be they electrical
or mechanical, being completely rebuilt or replaced.
[ Photos: Internet, 2004 ]
[Unknown, USA - possibly Miller of
Bellefontaine, OH] 8-passenger, 6-window, sightseeing car with removable canvas roof;
used by Colorado's Broadmoor Hotel to convey patrons to the top of Pike's Peak.
[Unknown, USA - possibly Miller of
Bellefontaine, OH] 12-passenger, 8-window, sightseeing car with removable canvas roof;
used also by Colorado's Broadmoor Hotel.
S&S (USA) Damascus style
carved-side hearse
 
 
 
...on La Salle chassis
These excellent pictures were taken at the CLC Grand
National, Detroit, 2002
[ Photos: © 2002, J. Scott Harris ]
S&S (USA) Byzantine style carved-side
hearse on Cadillac chassis.
 
[Unknown, USA] Custom flower car on La
Salle chassis
1938
Eureka (USA) four-panel carved hearse on
LaSalle chassis, McC p.221
Eureka (USA) four-panel carved hearse on
Cadillac chassis
Fleetwood (USA) style 9006, special
7-passenger convertible sedan on 165" wheel base V16 chassis, for White House
security agents [2 units built]. The V16 engine was replaced with a flathead V8 in 1946
and with an overhead V8 in 1952 [art. SS, 9/2005, pp.1819 et seq.].
This photo was taken of at the time the car was ready
for delivery to the White House
Car #1
 
One of the two surviving cars was located for many
years in
Belgium's National Auto Museum, under the care of Ghislain Mahy;
it was sold (in the late nineties?) [together with one of two 1956 White House
security cars] and is now back in the USA ... where it belongs
[ Photos: © 1984, Yann Saunders ]
Car #2
 
Fleetwood V-16 style #9006, car #2 (White House
security car) was for many years
in the collection of my friend Jack Tallman, Cadillac dealer in Decatur, IL
[ Photos: courtesy Katie Robbins ]
 
Left: behind the 1956 White House security car, while
in Jack's collection
The car was for a while in a private collection in Florida (2003/04)
[ Photo (left): Yann Saunders; (right): Andy Chrisanfov, Russia ]
These three rows of photos are from the RM
Auctions catalog (Scottsdale, Arizona) for January 2012;
the car was sold there for $269,500 (it had been estimated to sell for some
20% more)
Flxible (USA)
This hearse appears to be built on a 1940 Cadillac
chassis;
actually it is a unique 1938 model
Meteor (USA) open front, town car funeral
coach, McC p.216
Meteor (USA) Hearse on stretched Series 60
chassis
Upper image is a factory drawing; lower image is of
the actual car
Meteor (USA) Ambulance on stretched
Cadillac
chassis
[ Photo: Internet, 2014 ]
Sayers & Scovill (USA), the S&S
Corinthian, sculptured-side hearse, style #716
 
Sayers & Scovill (USA), the S&S Damascus,
sculptured-side hearse on LaSalle chassis, McC p.221. This particular car was
featured in a movie entitled "The
Black Book", filmed in Holland in 2006, about the persecution of the
Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland during WW2.
 
 
(Top two rows): this carved-side hearse was in
service in Belgium, where it still resides
 
This carved-side S&S hearse on the La Salle
chassis
was photographed in Denver, CO at the CLC annual Grand National
[ Photo: © 2001, Yann Saunders ]
Superior (USA), limousine
hearse, McC p.216
Superior (USA)
[Unidentified, USA] Fleets
like these were quite commonplace among the larger livery companies and funeral homes
alike
[Unknown, France?] Cadillac
"movie car" conversion on Series 75 chassis, style 7533 [ser. #3291374];
this car was acquired in the early nineties by French Cadillac enthusiast,
Laurent Tesseyre, who found it in the south of France. He said it had been converted to a
"movie car" by the Victorine Movie Studios in Nice who had
bought it (I guess as a regular used car) in the early fifties. The rear body was removed
and replaced with a tubular frame construction for mounting movie cameras. It saw about 20
more years of service in this new configuration and participated in the making of many
movies. The car was featrured in France's NITRO Magazine for Oct-Nov, 2003.
 
Left: On the job in the Victorine Studios, at Nice,
France
Right: Some years later, in need of restoration
[ Photos: © 2001 Laurent Tesseyre ]
[Unknown, USA] Flower car on La Salle
chassis, with convertible top
[Unknown, USA] Eight-door airport
limousine on stretched Cadillac chassis
[Unknown, USA] Modern-stretched "Series
75", 8-pass. limousine with 472ci engine and 3-speed automtic transmission.
  
[ Photos : Internet, 2008 ]
1939
Cadillac (USA) Professional
car chassis
 
Cadillac (left) and La Salle (right) professional car
chassis
1939 Business Sedan
Eureka (USA) Byzantine style carved-side
hearse on La Salle chassis.
 
[ Source: CLC, Self Starter magazine ]
Fleetwood (USA) 8-passenger limousine [imperial business sedan],
style #7533-L, for the funeral trade; only two units were built.
Fleetwood style $7533L [livery] business sedan;
2 were built
Flxible (USA) Various
professional car styles for the ambulance and funeral trades
Flxible hearse car on
1939 Cadillac chassis;
this one was specially built for the Worlds' Fair
Body style AM, ID #2D21314 on
LaSalle chassis
the owner of this survivor seeks any info about his car; can you help?
Write to Ian, at SickInnovations Llc., 1317
S Barker Ave., Evansville, IN 47712 (Tel.:
812-303-0711)
Flxible (USA) limousine funeral car, McC
p.234
Meteor (USA) funeral flower car on La
Salle chassis, McC p.235. Also possibly the flower car below.
This appears to be a Meteor flower car
[ illustration from Cadillac professional car catalog
? ]
Meteor (USA) Carved-side
hearse
 
  
[ These photos: courtesy Zenobia Agency, Wings Wheels
and Watercraft,
Los Angeles, CA ]
Email: props@WingsWheelsWatercraft.com / props@zenobia.com
Miller (USA) limousine ambulance (see also
McC p.234).
This stepped tray model
appears to be a Miller flower car
[ illustration from Cadillac professional car catalog ? ]
Sayers & Scovill [S&S]
(USA) S&S ambulance
This is an early high headroom
car by S&S; it was a special job
Sayers & Scovill
[S&S] (USA) S&S Landau funeral car on La Salle chassis,
S&S Masterpiece carved-panel hearse on La Salle chassis [both, McC
p.235], S&S Damascus, carved-side hearse. Story of a Belgian survivor
in V8, #21, pp.34-37.
 
This is a surviving
S&S Corinthian carved hearse on Cadillac chassis
[ Color differences are due to lighting conditions ]
S&S Florenmtine flower car; this vehicle
has the trademark
'date marks' on the front, an S&S feature still in use today [2004]
[ illustration from Cadillac professional car catalog ? ]
Superior (USA) limousine funeral coach, McC
p.230. Also fleet vehicles, below
These three are on the LaSalle chassis
(rooflines differ owing to model year changes)
Tail end of Superior carved-side funeral coach
[Unknown, USA] Ambulance on Cadillac
chassis
1939? (with 1940 grille?)
[Unknown, USA] Fire
Chief ambulance, New York Fire Department
[Unknown, USA]
Various fleets of business limousines and sedans
A fleet of 1939 business limousines operating in New
York, in 1939
...and here's another that was operating in Kentucky
during the same period
[Unknown, USA] Ambulance on
LaSalle chassis
[ Photo: courtesy Zenobia Agency, Wings Wheels and
Watercraft,
Los Angeles, CA ]
Email: props@WingsWheelsWatercraft.com / props@zenobia.com
[Unknown, USA] Ambulance on
Cadillac chassis
[Unknown, USA]
Carved-side hearse on
Cadillac chassis
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