Re: Body Number tag
Budd made most of the commercial bodies for Ford. They had superior stamping and drawing capability so they did all the big bodies like the Panel Delivery. I doubt that Budd put any body tags on their stuff but I don't know for certain. Those folks that were into coach building in that time frame could just look at a body and tell if it was made by Budd. No other company had the capability to do it and Ford wasn't going to tool up for low production types if someone else could do it cheaper.
You might check out the Coach Built web site. There is a wealth of info on there. The only other place would be the Benson Ford Research Center.
LeBaron Carrossiers & later LeBaron Inc. was the name of the coach works that the LB stood for. Lebaron Bonney is just an upholstery manufacturing firm from the more modern era. Briggs & Murray supplied stuff but Briggs did more than Murray. There were some other companies that also supplied Ford. Briggs tried to buy out Murray but Henry Ford talked him out of it. Briggs did purchase the LeBaron holdings. When the depression was hitting, the eastern shops were shut down and the work concentrated in Detroit after that.
Last edited by rotorwrench; 02-07-2019 at 01:42 PM.
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