Coach builders

Coach builders are a rare bread nowadays, but back in the first half of the 1900s it was far more often to have a vehicle with a coach-built body.

Especially vans, lorries and buses were delivered as a chassis, and a coach builder would fit bodywork that was tailored the customers needs.

Today coach-builders primarily build buses, ambulances, hearses, armoured cars as well as special sales and promotion vehicles.

Denmark

Charles H Roe built bus and tram bodies between 1923 and 1984

Art Deco streamlined vans
Dinky example

The Blue Bird Body Company has built buses, and especially school buses since 1927.

Built a Long Row of busses in it’s short lifespan 1939-1952.

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