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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: targhediferro on September 13, 2013, 05:44:11 AM
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Quite easy to get the base car, but I'd like to know the name of the coachbuilder of this car.
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I think I have the owner but am a bit lost on the coachbuilder but I will give it a try.
1952 Ford Mainliner Hearse owned by the Sweeny Funeral Home in Nova Scotia Canada.
The body builder may be Smith Bros. of Toronto Canada.
bill
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The car is right, but I have another coachbuilder...and not from Canada.
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I will have to say this was a really strange journey.
I originally Googled one set of parameters for a 1952 Ford Hearse and came up with the single photo on the Sweeny Funeral Home website. They had posted 25-30 photos of different hearses in their history section and I assumed that they owned all of them. I assumed the body builder was Canadian and Smith Bros. did similar vehicles at that time.
Having little luck, I started using different search parameters/different arrangement of words and descriptions and stumbled upon what I believe is the answer. I then went back to the Sweeny site and I think I discovered that all the various hearse photos they posted there were just "examples" of hearses over the decades.
In any case, I now believe this is a 1952 Ford Mainliner Hearse with coach work by Olding Coachcraft and that the origin of the car is Australia, not Canada. I hope this is the correct answer.
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Right journey...it's actually a job by Olding Coachcraft. Another point for you.
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Thank you, Fabrizio:
It has been a rather long "dry spell" for me this last month in being able to solve puzzles as the puzzles mostly represent types of vehicles or eras that I have never researched. Good luck for me this week that two puzzles were about limousines and hearses where I have at least done some research.
Bill