Owned and operated by Billy Higgs. Car on left was ex Newmans North Island No 6, Cadillac 353 fitted with a Waukesha engine and finally scrapped in Gisborne in the 1970's. Car on the right is one of the No 1 to 5 series of Cadillac 355's. Crawley Ridley bodies.
Those Cadillac service cars were beautiful machines, and must have offered a reasonable amount of comfort on our fairly primitive main roads of the time. There is a nice example in the Packard & Pioneer Museum at Maungatapere, Northland.
The Cadillac 341 Bevan refers to was bodied as a hearse in Wellington. When acquired by the late Ron Roycroft it was fitted with a false boot and extra seats and was passed off as a service car, which it never was and was later sold to the late Graeme Craw. Thus is history altered by the uncaring.
Owned and operated by Billy Higgs. Car on left was ex Newmans North Island No 6, Cadillac 353 fitted with a Waukesha engine and finally scrapped in Gisborne in the 1970's. Car on the right is one of the No 1 to 5 series of Cadillac 355's. Crawley Ridley bodies.
ReplyDeleteThose Cadillac service cars were beautiful machines, and must have offered a reasonable amount of comfort on our fairly primitive main roads of the time. There is a nice example in the Packard & Pioneer Museum at Maungatapere, Northland.
ReplyDeleteThe Cadillac 341 Bevan refers to was bodied as a hearse in Wellington. When acquired by the late Ron Roycroft it was fitted with a false boot and extra seats and was passed off as a service car, which it never was and was later sold to the late Graeme Craw. Thus is history altered by the uncaring.
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