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Interesting hearse pages on the internet:
- The Daimler DS420 Hearse (21-Apr 2003)
An excellent site dedicated to Daimler DS420 Hearses.
Don't miss the "scale models" section, there are
beautiful scale models of hearses to see!
- Australian hearses for hire! (23-Jan 2001)
Those Aussies sure have fine classic hearses (Dodge, Mercury, Cadillac, Chrysler)!
Beautiful pictures!
- Alexander Beyers Page with sales brochures (09-Jan 2001)
Alexander Beyers page about professional cars (limousines and hearses).
Lots of pictures from original sales brochures. Mostly in English language as well!
- Imperial Hearses (19-Dec 2000)
Imperial Hearses - Historical Discussion. Since Imperial-based hearses,
flower cars and ambulances are extremely rare this page is a very good information
source on Imperial based professional cars.
- Dennis' classic professional funeral cars (19-Dec 2000)
A nice page set up by the owner of the Schrader Funeral Home in Ballwin, Missouri.
It display some very nice (mostly Cadillac) hearses and limousines.
- Granada hearses (25-Nov-2000)
A brand new page, exclusively about Ford Granada hearses (in German language).
Stay put, Martin is working on it!
- Rolls Royce hearses (03-Jan-2000)
A tiny web page in German language. Uli is also, as time permits, working on
a book about Rolls-Royce hearses. If you have information or pictures for him
(or us), please contact either me
or directly Uli (email address is in his page)!
- The Swag (19-Nov-99)
The Swag is the name of my friend Keith's hearse.
- Hearse Safari (15-Nov-99)
Lots of pictures of hearses; pictures of PCS meetings as well. If you
want to see pictures, go there.
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Hearse clubs:
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Not the only hearse page on the net, but one of the best. It
was there I got hooked on American hearses.
- Phantom Mortuary
A hearse club with quite a few international members
- Dallas Trocars (15-Nov-99)
Tro-car association of Dallas. Hearses, Ambulances, Limos
- The Denver Hearse Association
Also not the only hearse club in the US. Check out the member bios!
- Phantom Coaches
Another Hearse Club in LA. Seems to me that California is THE place for
hearse enthusiasts! No rust, most often perfect weather....
- Funeral Car Addicts Anonymous
FCAA is a Pittsburgh based professional car enthusiast group.
- Prime Movers
A hearse club in sunny Florida.
- Dark Coaches
The Internet Hearse Society
- The Professional Car Society
Not directly a hearse club, but they do have information on hearses
on their page .
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Hearse clubs outside the USA:
- The Classic Hearse Register (15-Mar-2003)
A british hearse club, now led by Sandra Mitchell.
This club is co-organising the Hearse of the Year Show in Beaulieu, England.
- The Hearse Archive (09-Nov-2000)
Ingo Marx is one of the guys you'd like to ask anything about hearses. He's collecting
all pieces of information and literature he can get his fingers on, and here is how
to contact him via email.
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Funeral Coach builders:
- Germany:
- Miesen (1-Mar 2001)
Today Miesen is building ambulances only, but there are reports of older Miesen
hearses as well.
- Binz (1-Mar 2001)
Similar to Miesen, Binz is bulding only ambulances and limousines today.
- Autohaus Braunschweig GmbH (23-Jan 2001)
The Volkswagen and Audi Dealership "Autohaus Braunschweig" (ABRA) in,
surprise, Braunschweig not only sells new Volkswagens, but also hearses. Mostly
based on Volkswagen mini vans (suck), but, interesting enough, also based on
VW Passat. Interesting.
- DeBesta Sonderfahrzeuge (23-Jan 2001)
DeBesta in Isernhagen (Hamburg) offers hearses based on
Mercedes Vito (transporter) and Mercedes-Benz E-Class. They also offer some used
coaches, however not exactly to prices affordable by the average collector.
- Pollmann, Bremen (19-Dez 2000)
- Rappold (42489 Wülfrath) (05-Feb-2000)
- Stolle (Hannover) (05-Feb-2000)
- Kuhlmann (46325 Borken) (29-Dez-1999)
- ZR Global Trading (28790 Schwanewede) (29-Dez-1999)
- Italy:
- Marazzi Autofunebri (1-Mar 2001)
Marazzi builds all sorts of cars, armoured vehicles, ambulances and of course,
hearses. Their funeral coaches are based on Mercedes Benz chassis and available
as Landau style, with large windows, two doors or four doors, they offer everything.
- MAF, Mariani Alfredo e Figlio (1-Mar 2001)
Signor Mariani builds all sorts of specialized vehicles, including some pretty unusual
cars like a mobile blood bank! Of course they also build funeral vehicles, based
on Mercedes Benz chassis and Mercedes Vito and Fiat Ducato for more specialized hearses.
- Disteco Carrozzerie Speciali (20-Jan 2001)
Disteco in Camnago Volta, Italy, builds ambulances and funeral coaches.
Their page is only in italian language.
- Landriani (20-Jan 2001)
Actually, as Alexander Beyer has found out, Landriani does not
build their own funeral coaches; instead they sell coaches built by
Pilato.
- Fraire (20-Jan 2001)
Autotrasformazioni Fraire are located in Revello and have some beautiful hearses
on a Mercedes-Benz basis.
- Spain:
- Bergadana, Spain (19-Dez 2000)
A spanish coach builder, producing hearses and ambulances. They also use some
unusual cars as chassis, ever seen a 4WD hearse?
- Great Britain:
- Woodall-Nicholson (1-Mar 2001)
From their webpage: "Woodall Nicholson is one of the oldest established
coachbuilding companies in the UK, dating back to the 1820's, when its major
market was the building of horse-drawn hansom cabs and carriages. Through the
years, the company, which was originally founded in the Yorkshire town of
Halifax, has maintained its reputation for classical coachwork, being
associated with all the famous marques, including in the first half of the 20th
century Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Humber, Jaguar and Austin.
In the latter half of the century, with the demise of separate chassis on cars, the
Group has concentrated on vehicles from the Ford, Jaguar, Mercedes Benz,
Rolls-Royce and Saab ranges."
Today, the company has been bought by Coleman-Milne, but the name lives on,
and as a matter of fact, Coleman-Milne presents itself on the web under the
Woodall-Nicholson address:
- Coleman-Milne (1-Mar 2001)
Suppliers of hearses, limousines, police vehicles and removal ambulances.
- Nilsson UK (1-Mar 2001)
While Nilsson is actually a Swedish coach builder, they have dependencies in UK
as well (I've been told it is related to a Swedish law requiring all car manufacturers
to perform a crash test on their cars, even if these are based on commercial, and
therefore already crash tested cars, and also for one-off models. Can someone confirm
this or prove me wrong?)
They also sell used cars, albeit only from their own product range.
- MacNeillie (1-Mar 2001)
Ever wanted to buy a "riot and crowd control vehicle" or a
"prisoner transportation vehicle"? Then that is the place to go to.
OK, they build limousines and hearses as well.
- Wilcox Limousines (1-Mar 2001)
Ingo found out that Wilcox also manufactures coaches under the name
"Eagle Specialist Vehicles".
- USA:
- Krystal Enterprises (1-Mar 2001)
Krystal Enterprises main business seems to be focused on all sorts of limousines, but
there are also two hearse models in their product portfolio, based on Cadillac and
Lincoln chassis. They also have a range of pre-owned limousines (and mid-size buses)
for sale.
- Eagle (1-Mar 2001)
What was once the funeral coach division of Hess&Eisenhardt is now Eagle.
- Accubuilt (1-Mar 2001)
Accubuilt unites the "old" and big names such as S&S (Sayers and Scovill),
Miller-Meteor, Superior and Eureka under one roof. If their web page would work
(at least with my browser) as intended, you could directly hop from there to the
homepages of the individual makes. However, it seems they are still working on their
internet presentation.
- Miller-Meteor (1-Mar 2001)
Owned by Accubuilt today, only the name remains. And a webpage, that doesn't seem
to work (at least for me). Well, it is listed here for completeness.
- S&S and Superior (1-Mar 2001)
The same story as with the two manufacturers listed above.
- Federal (1-Mar 2001)
Federal builds professional cars such as hearses and limousines as well as buses.
Hearses and limousines are based on Cadillac and Lincoln chassis.
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Where to buy a pre-owned hearse:
- Germany:
- AutoScout24 (20-Jan 2001)
They have all sorts of cars, however sometimes your will be able to find a hearse,
so stop by and browse!
- Classifieds of www.leichenwagen.de
There aren't too many hearse dealers in Germany, however if yu speak (write and read)
German, you'll find a lot of cars for sale at this online market of our German sister
page!
- Belgium:
- Ray Car Services (1-Mar 2001)
An importer of hearses located in Belgium. Currently only the dutch language web page
is online though. They import (and sell) new cars from Krystal Koaches, S&S, Superior,
Nilsson and Pollmann. They also sell pre-owned "lijkwagens", hearses.
- Great Britain:
- Zenith Classics (19-Dec 2000)
A British company selling used hearses and limousines. I don't know them personally,
but despite a little to non-changing web site, they are still in business.
They even claim to have Austin Princess hearses for sale, only for the daring people!
- Wilcox Limousines
Another dealer in England.
- USA:
- Johnson-Williams Funeral Sales (25-Nov 2002)
Minneapolis, Minnesota Dealer of Fine New and Used Funeral
Procession Vehicles and Hearses - Limousines - Escort Motorcycles.
- Muster Associates (03-Jun 2001)
Muster Associates, Inc., in Calhoun, Kentucky offer leasing deals on hearses and
funeral limousines
- Shields Southeast Sales Inc. (03-Jun 2001)
Shields Southeast in Marietta, Georgia sell new and used Cadillac hearses by S&&S, Superior and Miller-Meteor
- Ambulance & Funeral Coach Sales (1-Mar 2001)
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, they sell new and used S&S and Superior (well, it is
all Accubuilt now anyway) hearses and limousines.
- Wolfington (1-Mar 2001)
A coach builder until 1930, Wolfington is today one of the largest professional
car dealers in the USA. While the headquarters are located in Exton, PA,
it also has facilities in New Buffalo, PA; Clifton, NJ; and Mt. Holly, NJ.
- Speciality Hearse & Ambulance Co., New York, USA (1-Mar 2001)
If you happen to live in the NY area you could certainly pop over to Shasco; while
they focus on ambulances, they also have a few pre-owned hearses for sale.
- United Coach and Limousine, Minneapolis, USA (05-Feb-2000)
They also have a few used hearses for sale, however they do not list prices.
I've heard that they are not amongst the most cheapest, but they offer a
one year warranty on their used cars.
- Doug Scott's Funeral Cars
I got my car at Doug's and I can only tell good things about him.
- W.R. Bennett Funeral Coaches
- C.W. Coach Sales
Yup, they are online again!
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Hearse parts:
- DNR Industries (03-Jun 2001)
DNR Industries sells parts like landau bars, rollers, bier pins etc.
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Verschiedenes rund um Bestattungswagen:
- The LA Coroner Gift Shop (25-Nov 2002)
The (unofficial) gift shop of the Los Angeles Coroners.
The store is actually located in the real coroner office building!
Go visit the shop, park your car in the midst of a lot of
coroner cars and walk past the offices of the coroners!
Suitable accessories for the hearse lover like bathing towels,
t-shirts and cups are for sale as well as things like body bags etc.
- Motorcycle Funerals (25-Nov 2002)
Believe it or not, but there are funeral motorcycles! Paul
is a real pastor with a big love for bikes, and, you guessed it!
Even if you cannot buy a funeral bike here, you can order a decent
funeral procession on two wheels (well, three for the hearse!); what
a prospect for every hard core biker!
- Mercedes Hearse for a PC car racing game (25-Nov 2002)
You can download a data set for the PC car racing game
"NICE2" representing a Mercedes-Benz hearse
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Cadillac Links:
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Daimler Links:
- Daimler DS420 Automobiles (19-Dec 2000)
A good page describing the DS420 limousines, on which a lot of British hearses are
based on. While those cars look, well, very british and noble, apparently they do have
more than their share of problems for the used car enthusiasts!
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Ford Links:
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Mercedes-Benz Links:
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Oldtimer, car import etc.:
-
(03-Jun-2001)
The German branch of the Police Car Owners Association. Similar to us hearse
owners they have rare and very special cars that are often sneered upon by others.
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CAAR - Club for Old Automobiles & Rallyes.
Everything about historic licens plates and information from and for the
(German) Oldtimer scene with plenty of links. (09-Nov-2000)
- DUS - Head office of US-car clubs in Germany (07-Feb-2000)
- About buying an oldtimer
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Last update: 18-Dec 2011
Last link check: 03-June 2001