[Marco Tahtaras]

Originally Posted by Bick in New Zealand

If you are going to go to the trouble to make your own copy of the motor, body construction would be no more difficult.

Suggesting those were "copies" is like suggesting fenders made at the Long Beach plant were "copies" of those made at the Rouge. In reality both examples were simply Ford products made in different locations.

I have been told but am unable to verify it that Murray provided all the jigs for Murray body assembly in Canada. I have also been told that Murray had a financial interest in the Canadian Top and Body Corporation.

I considered the idea that Murray had direct connection but haven't found anything to support the idea.

What folks don't understand is that Murray bodies were not simply assembled from a pile of pre-manufactured parts but much of the wood was finished (machined) to size DURING the assembly process so the finished overall dimensions of the sum of the parts would fit the steel skins.