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Fleetwood Metal Body was an automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 coachbuilder
Coachbuilder

A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for carriages or automobiles.The trade dates back several centuries. Rippon was active in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Barker founded in 1710 by an officer in Queen Anne's Guards, Brewster & Co....
 purchased by Fisher Body
Fisher Body

Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder founded by the Fisher brothers in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan which is now an operating division of General Motors....
 and integrated into General Motors. The name derives from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania

Fleetwood is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,006 at the 2005 census. It was home to the Fleetwood Metal Body company, an automobile coachbuilder purchased by Fisher Body and integrated into General Motors Corporation in 1931....
, home of the company at the start, and lived on for decades in the form of the Cadillac Fleetwood
Cadillac Fleetwood

The Fleetwood Metal Body Company began business in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1909 and continued as an independent automobile body builder until acquired in 1925 by the Fisher Body Company, a division of General Motors....
 and various Fleetwood trim lines on Cadillac cars.

The company was formed on April 1, 1909. It was a top-tier producer of metal and wood automobile bodies. Fleetwood bodies graced cars owned by Royalty of India and Japan, American presidents, and screen stars like Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino was an Italy actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film....
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Fleetwood Metal Body was an automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 coachbuilder
Coachbuilder

A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for carriages or automobiles.The trade dates back several centuries. Rippon was active in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Barker founded in 1710 by an officer in Queen Anne's Guards, Brewster & Co....
 purchased by Fisher Body
Fisher Body

Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder founded by the Fisher brothers in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan which is now an operating division of General Motors....
 and integrated into General Motors. The name derives from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania

Fleetwood is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,006 at the 2005 census. It was home to the Fleetwood Metal Body company, an automobile coachbuilder purchased by Fisher Body and integrated into General Motors Corporation in 1931....
, home of the company at the start, and lived on for decades in the form of the Cadillac Fleetwood
Cadillac Fleetwood

The Fleetwood Metal Body Company began business in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1909 and continued as an independent automobile body builder until acquired in 1925 by the Fisher Body Company, a division of General Motors....
 and various Fleetwood trim lines on Cadillac cars.

The company was formed on April 1, 1909. It was a top-tier producer of metal and wood automobile bodies. Fleetwood bodies graced cars owned by Royalty of India and Japan, American presidents, and screen stars like Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino was an Italy actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film....
. Fleetwood produced bodies on chassis from Bentley, Cadillac
Cadillac

Cadillac is a luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors. Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, mainly in the United States, Canada, and Mexico....
, Chadwick
Chadwick

Chadwick may refer to:* Chadwick, Illinois* Chadwick School, a private K-12 school in Southern California* Chadwick , a lunar craterChadwick is also a surname and may refer to:...
, Daniels, Duesenberg
Duesenberg

Duesenberg was an Auburn, Indiana based luxury automobile company active in various forms from 1913 to 1937, most famous for its high-quality, record-breaking roadsters....
, Fiat
Fiat

Fiat S.p.A. Fiat based cars are constructed all around the world?the largest concern outside Italy is in Brazil . It also has factories in Argentina and Poland....
, Isotta Fraschini, Lincoln
Lincoln (automobile)

Lincoln is a brand of Ford Motor Company. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland and acquired by Ford in 1922, Lincoln has manufactured vehicles since the 1920s....
, Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
, Packard
Packard

Packard was an United States luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana....
, Pierce-Arrow
Pierce-Arrow

Pierce-Arrow was an United States automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active between 1901 and 1938. Best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial motor truck, Fire apparatus, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles....
, Reading, Rolls Royce, SGV, and Stutz
Stutz

PeopleJosef Stutz , Swiss Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland politician...
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Fleetwood was purchased by Fisher in 1925, moved to Detroit, and integrated into General Motors in 1931.

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