Solved TGF-382: Ford with Universal body by R.Mc Reynolds.

[4popoid]

A Dayton Body Company (Dayton, OH, USA) Dayton Classi Body on a Ford Model T base from about 1926?

[targhediferro]

No.

[4popoid]

An Ames Body Corporation (Owensboro, KY, USA) Ames-bilt Cloverleaf Body on a Ford Model T base from about 1925?

[targhediferro]

No.

[4popoid]

A Lehmann-Peterson Co. (Indianapolis, IN, USA) Lamco Body on a Ford Model T base from about 1926?

[targhediferro]

Not that one.

[4popoid]

I need to tighten up the geography, as there are too many coachbuilders that made aftermarket bodies for Ford.  Is the coachbuilder that I am searching for from the Northeast Central United States (West of the Allegheny Mountains, North of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi River)?   

[targhediferro]

I'm sorry, but I know very little about this coachbuilder;  on the side of this car (on the White paper) you can read the name of this body, and the name of the firm:  --------- body, by -------- & Son.  Than you have an address but not the city...and I haven't found other news about them.

[4popoid]

One last try.  They are probably too well known, but otherwise are the only name I can think of that fits your criteria.  Is the coachbuilder: F. B. Wood & Son?

[targhediferro]

No, the name of the body is 9 letters long, the coachbuilder's one is 8.

[pnegyesi]

cabriolet body?

[targhediferro]

Not "Cabriolet".

[pnegyesi]

Landaulet?

[targhediferro]

Not Landaulet.  I want to give you a clue:  The Body name isn't a proper body definition, but  some Makers of a European State, used it to describe a kind of vehicle during late '50 and '60 (and perhaps later on, but I don't know)...a kind of vehicle different from quiz car.

[Wendax]

Speedster?

[targhediferro]

Not Speedster.

[oko94]

Barchetta ?

[targhediferro]

Not Barchetta.

[Wendax]

An Italian word?

[oko94]

Limousine ?

[targhediferro]

Not an Italian word, and not limousine.

[Wendax]

An English word?

[pnegyesi]

Familiale?

[targhediferro]

The makers I was thinking about are not English, but the world that describes the body of quiz car has the same meaning also in English. Familiale is wrong but is a good idea...but the name is not French.

[Tom_I]

Is it "Universal"?

DKW called the estate car/wagon body of the F89 "Universal" in the 1950s, and Volga used the same name a bit later in the early 1960s.