Topic: Solved TGF-195: Ford Mainline 1952 Hearse by Olding Coachcraft

[targhediferro]

Quite easy to get the base car, but I'd like to know the name of the coachbuilder of this car.

[Bill Murray]

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

[targhediferro]

The car is right, but I have another coachbuilder...and not from Canada.

[Bill Murray]

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.

[targhediferro]

Right journey...it's actually a job by Olding Coachcraft.  Another point for you.

[Bill Murray]

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