[ last update: 11.26.2014 ]

The (new) Cadillac Database©
Professional Cars

on
Cadillac Chassis

1946-1947

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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

 


1946

Eureka (USA) Custom professional coaches on the S&S label

46Cad-SS.jpg (8257 bytes)    46Cad-SSland.jpg (8120 bytes)

46Euk2.JPG (19886 bytes)

 

Fleetwood (USA)

46-75sdn.JPG (19688 bytes)
Fleetwood Series 75 sedans and limousines like these
were used frequently by funeral homes around the country

 

Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) 8-door airport limousine featuring a roof line unique to these vehicles. They were also built in shorter, 6-door versions.  A number of the 8-door versions were built with rollback canvas center roof sections (as below) for the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado.

46h&e.jpg (7574 bytes)

466dra.jpg (5745 bytes)    466drb.jpg (6008 bytes)    466drc.jpg (4889 bytes)

    

 

Meteor (USA)

 

Miller (USA)

46Milr.JPG (19624 bytes)

 

Schwartz (USA) 6-door "Woodie", movie studio station wagon, McC p.268

SCHWWA46.JPG (11745 bytes)    Dr47sch2.jpg (10289 bytes)

 

Superior (USA) various commercial vehicles on Cadillac chassis for the ambulance and funeral trades,like the survivor below:

46supr.JPG (20779 bytes)

prof46.jpg (8442 bytes)

dr46hrsa.jpg (10155 bytes)    dr46hrsb.jpg (8726 bytes)

dr46hrsc.jpg (7795 bytes)    dr46hrsd.jpg (7172 bytes)    dr46hrse.jpg (5560 bytes)

 

[Unidentified, USA] Professional cars on 1946 commercial Cadillac chassi

46hrs.JPG (26958 bytes)    46flc2.JPG (24063 bytes)

pr46inva.JPG (23644 bytes)

 

[Unidentified, USA] Ambulance on 1946 Cadillac chassis

46amb2.jpg (6557 bytes)

 

[Unknown, USA] Series 62 on 129" wheel base converted for railroad track inspection (SS 4/92, pp.7-8)

 

1947

Derham (USA) Custom limousines, including this one, presumably built for the funeral trade.  It has, in addition to faux landau bars [an unusual feature for a Derham conversion], the typical front hood chrome markings of the Sayers & Scovill (S&S) funeral coaches.

47derh2.jpg (13255 bytes)

47derh1.jpg (10275 bytes)    47derh3.jpg (9607 bytes)

47derh4.jpg (7787 bytes)    47derh5.jpg (5159 bytes)
[ Photos:  Internet, 11/2004 ]

 

Eureka (USA) Professional cars on Cadillac chassis, like the example below

 

47CHFTN.JPG (7967 bytes)
Chieftain ambulance

47eukhrs.JPG (9823 bytes)
Chieftain hearse

47EKKCHF.JPG (7069 bytes)
Eureka Chieftain funeral car

 

Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) Airport bus

47h&ebus.jpg (10069 bytes)

47airlim.jpg (10017 bytes)
Could this be a survivor ?

 

Miller (USA) Various commercial body styles such as this ambulance

47amb.jpg (7809 bytes)

47mm1.jpg (8183 bytes)    47mm2.jpg (4447 bytes)
This one has seen better days!

 

Sayers & Scovill [S&S] (USA) Various commercial body styles such as this ornate carved hearse.

DR47hrse.jpg (10603 bytes)
Sayers & Scovill (S&S) Macedonian carved side funeral coach

Dr47amb2.jpg (8870 bytes)
Sayers & Scovill (S&S) ambulance

47SandShrs.jpg (27199 bytes)

47SandSgrl.jpg (21978 bytes)    47SandSrr.jpg (10150 bytes)
As you can see, this one (above 2 rows) was converted to a low-rider
[ Photos: Self-Starter, courtesy Roy Schneider ]


Photo:  Internet, 2014

 

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) Various commercial bodies including hearses like the model in the photo, below

48suprhs.jpg (7098 bytes)
Factory drawing (above) and survivor (below)

47suhrs.JPG (8108 bytes)
This hearse features the automatic side-servicing table with Lev-o-Trol

dr46supr.jpg (8781 bytes)    dr46sup3.jpg (8670 bytes)

    dr46sup4.jpg (5506 bytes)    dr46sup2.jpg (6316 bytes)
[Above two rows] The photos of this beautiful survivor were found on the Internet, 2/2001

47SUPAM.JPG (8753 bytes)
Superior Cadillac ambulance

47supram.jpg (7769 bytes)
Superior Cadillac combination ambulance

47SUPHR.JPG (8912 bytes)
Superior Cadillac Landaulet hearse

Superior Coach Corporation (USA) Other commercial bodies including the airport limousine, below, on a stretched Cadillac commercial chassis.

Dr47supa.jpg (9781 bytes)

Dr47amb.jpg (8140 bytes)
Superior field ambulance

 

Unknown (France) Funeral car on Cadillac chassis

47hrs2.jpg (14099 bytes)     t47hrs.jpg (61429 bytes)

 

Unknown (France) Conversion of a 1947 Series 62 convertible into a movie camera-car. Information and photos here are borrowed from France's NITRO Magazine issue for Oct-Nov, 2003 (I met the editor, Claude Lefebvre, at an international Cadillac meet in Castelsarrasin, France, in the early nineties). The original car was owned by Jean Gabin, one of France's "movie giants" of the forties through the seventies. It was acquired by Loca-Films, a French movie company. After the conversion, all that remained of the original car were the engine and steering position, which was protected from the wind behind the cockpit door of  a 3-wheeler Isetta-Velam scooter-car. Work platforms were mounted over the engine and across the rear deck; additional platforms could be mounted outboard of the front and rear bumper. In normal operating mode, the vehicle was more than 26 feet long; when front and rear platforms were added it grew to almost 40 feet! Movie crews could move easily from one end of the vehicle to the other without having to get off. Towards the end of the fifties, Loca-Films owned this vehicle, as well as a converted 1950 Limousine, two Fords from 1950 and 1956, a converted 1954 Fleetwood 75 converted to a pick-up truck and, later, a converted  1967 Eldorado coupe.  Sadly, only the latter has survived and has clocked up over 800,000 miles in 30 years.

5075mov3.jpg (10480 bytes)    5075mov4.jpg (3581 bytes)
All that remains of Jean Gabin's 1947 Cadillac convertible is the engine and the steering controls; film-maker Bernard Château (right)   stands on the rig; the cockpit door of  an Isetta-Velam   scooter-car serves as  a wind screen; Bernard's company went bankrupt and the vehicle was seized but he was soon back in business with a converted 1955 Eldorado

47camcar4.jpg (10057 bytes)    5075mov8.jpg (11165 bytes)
It was not uncommon to have 8-10 camera crew members
aboard the vehicle at one time

5075mov6.jpg (11131 bytes)    5075mov7.jpg (11422 bytes)
Above row: shots from a Michel Deville movie from 1963
[ All photos: © NITRO Magazine ]

 

Unknown (probably USA) An airport limousine or "bus" built on a stretched Cadillac commercial chassis. Bernie DeWinter, who is an expert on these commercial vehicles, believes it to be a regular stretched limousine from Hess & Eisenhardt.

Dr47abus.jpg (7782 bytes)    47airport.jpg (10885 bytes)     47airlim.jpg (10017 bytes)
Could the survivor, center and right be the selfsame vehicle as the one on the left?

 

Unknown (probably USA)

47unkamb.JPG (16168 bytes)

 

 

Return to The (New) Cadillac Database© Index Page
or go to the "Dream cars" section for 1946-47
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 ]