[ last update: 11.06.2014 ]

The (new) Cadillac Database©
Professional Cars
on
Cadillac Chassis

1950-1951

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or go to the "Dream cars" section for 1950-1951
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

 

 

 

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:

Pr50ajml.jpg (4813 bytes)    Pr50euk.jpg (4116 bytes)
Left: A.J. Miller funeral car.    Right: Eureka ambulance

Pr50h&e.jpg (4768 bytes)    Pr50metr.jpg (5399 bytes)
Left: Hess & Eisenhardt landau hearse.   Right: Meteor Motor Car Co. funeral car

Pr50supr.jpg (5083 bytes)
Superior funeral car

 

 

Eureka (USA)  Ambulance on Cadillac chassis

50EukAmb.jpg (55712 bytes)

 

Meteor (USA) Ambulance on Cadillac chassis

50MeteorAmb.jpg (51233 bytes)

 

 

Miller, A.J. (USA) Ambulance on Cadillac chassis

50MilrAmb.jpg (58583 bytes)

    Dr50hrml.jpg (8336 bytes)

51milr2.jpg (10592 bytes)

 

S&S [Hess & Eisenhardt] (USA) Ambulance on Cadillac chassis

 

  

  51supram.jpg (7417 bytes)
S&S high headroom ambulance

 

Superior (USA) Ambulance on Cadillac chassis

50SupAmb.jpg (61638 bytes)

    50amsu.jpg (8187 bytes)

50supfc.jpg (4556 bytes)

 

[Unidentified (USA?)] Delivery of new combination Ambulance to lucky Fire Chief.

 

[Unidentified (USA?)] Flower car.

 

 

[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.

5075mov1.jpg (9931 bytes)    5075mov2.jpg (7940 bytes)
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

5075mov5.jpg (15756 bytes)
[ All photos: © NITRO Magazine, Oct-Nov, 2003 ]

 

1951

Eureka (USA)

 

51EukHrs.jpg (51011 bytes)

 

Franay, Coachbuilders (France) Royal "hi-top" touring limousine project for H.M. Ibn Seoud, King of Saudi Arabia, to be built on 1951 Cadillac commercial chassis. There is no pohotographic record of this one having been actually built.

 

Meteor Motor Car Company (USA)

51MeteorHrs.jpg (53307 bytes)

    Dr51amb2.jpg (8272 bytes)
(Right) Fire-chief limousine-style ambulance on Cadillac commercial chassis.

 

Miller Motor Car Company (USA)

51MilrHrs.jpg (56380 bytes)

 

 

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) limousine style hearse

51SupHrs.jpg (56243 bytes)

    Dr51supr.jpg (8735 bytes)
Illustrations from original factory sales literature

 

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

51H&EHrs.jpg (48945 bytes)

Dr51he1.jpg (10812 bytes)    Dr51he3.jpg (9727 bytes)

Dr51he2.jpg (13458 bytes)
S&S Knickerbocker hearse
[ Photos :  Internet ]

Dr51amb.jpg (9525 bytes)
S&S Knickerbocker hearse, imported during the early years
of U.S. army occupation of Germany after WW2
[ apparently with German tags or possibly US Army on the Rhine ]

51SSInt400.jpg (7959 bytes)
This is the interior of a funeral coach by S&S
[ Photo:  Internet, 2008 ]

 

[Unknown, USA?] Combination hearse with custom high roof (possibly a former "Hi-Top" ambulance).

 

[Unknown, Europe?] Hearse with dipped, glass-encased casket table; it is possibly Spanish; I believe the license tag is from Madrid.

 

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

hrsbelg2a.jpg (9190 bytes)    hrsbelg2b.jpg (6955 bytes)

 

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

Dr5160w2.jpg (9159 bytes)    Dr5160w3.jpg (10290 bytes)

 

 

Return to The (New) Cadillac Database© Index Page
or go to the "Dream cars" section for 1950-51
or select "Professional Cars" years from the table below

 

Pick one   >

 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 ]