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Superior Coach was a coachbuilder in the American automotive industry. Founded in 1909 as the Garford Motor Truck Company, Superior is best known for constructing bodies for professional cars and school buses. Following major downturns in both segments in the late 1970s, Superior was liquidated by its parent company in 1980.
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
Amongst hearse enthusiasts, the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearse is considered one of the most desirable, due to its especially ornate styling and appearances in several feature films, notably an ambulance version in the 1984 film Ghostbusters. In the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the Ecto-1 is a 1984 Cadillac Superior hearse.
Funeral coach: not a coach but a US name for a hearse, a wagon adapted to carry a coffin. Can also be used to describe a coach used by mourners following a hearse; Hackney coach or a coach for hire. The use of these in England began in 1625. They did not stand in the streets, but at the principal inns.
Hearse manufactured using a 1995–1996 Cadillac Fleetwood body. In its return to the D-body, the Fleetwood again supported the commercial chassis, an incomplete vehicle designed primarily for limousines and funeral coaches (hearses). The variant differed from the standard Fleetwood sedan as antilock brakes, traction control, and dual front ...
5 Most Desireable Hearse? 1 comment. 6 Black ambulances. 2 comments. 7 Hearses in films. 2 comments. 8 Redirect to "professional car" or "funeral coach" 4 comments. 9 ...
Coleman Milne creates, builds, and sells hearses and limousines in the UK. 1980's Ford Granada -based Coleman Milne Grosvenor limousine The company’s range of customers includes corporations, financial institutions, nationalised industries, local authorities, government departments, police constabularies, limousine hire companies and funeral ...
In 1964, Flxible purchased Southern Coach Manufacturing Co. of Evergreen, Alabama, and built small transit buses at the former Southern Coach factory until 1976. Flxible was purchased by Rohr Industries in 1970, and a new factory and corporate headquarters were built in Delaware, Ohio , in 1974, with the original factory in Loudonville, Ohio ...