MCA

MCA (Motor Coach Australia) was a bus chassis builder in Brisbane, Queensland from 1982 (and also built bodies from 1986) until 1995.

October 1982

June 1986 Truck & Bus Transportation a

Adelaide Motor Metal Works

Adelaide Motor Metal Works was an automobile body builder (i.e. was not a marque) located in Adelaide, South Australia listed as Company #99 in 1932, went into liquidation on 16/1/1942 and wound up on 8/8/1943. 

Manufactured by
Adelaide Motor Metal Works
Register Place, Adelaide
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

Phone C5924
Adelaide Motor Metal Works Ltd. Builders
Register Place, Adelaide S.A.
(90mm x 40mm)

Australian Motor Industries / AMI

Australian Motor Industries (AMI) was an automobile assembly company of multiple marques from 1926 until 1987, including Standard (Eight & Vanguard models), and Triumph (Mayflower & Herald models).

AMI
Size: 64mm x 45mm

April 1969 Modern Motor

Holden - body builder

General Motors Holden (GMH) (Australia) or Holden (Australia) built bodies for Chevrolet, Isuzu, Nissan, Opel, Suzuki, Toyota, Vauxhall.  Below are some of the body builder emblems.

this body badge came in two sizes (not part of the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

Holden (1928)
Size: 46mm x 32mm

The Holden lion emblem, when facing right, was produced in the 1930-1931 era.

Holden (1930-1931) (photo only)

Holden (post 1939 & ~1939)
Size: 40mm x 26mm

The enameled emblem is likely to be the earlier of the two, as post-World War 2 the emblem wasn't enameled.

Australian Coachwork Holden
(on window pillar)
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

Product of General Motors-Holden's
(early 1950's)
Size: 38mm x 25mm

Ford - body builder

Ford is a marque, and also a body builder for other marques.

Two Ford body badges - no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann collection.

Ford Falcon (Ute)  Australian body badge (painted) Size: 68mm x 68mm x 14m

Ford - All-steel body by Ford (Australian ~late 1930's) Size: 45mm x 45mm Ford Aust body badge Size: 49mm x 13mm

Ford
Size: 75mm x 25mm

Kent Town

Kent Town Motor & Body Works Ltd were body builders and built buses in Adelaide, South Australia in the 1940's.

Bodywork by
Kent Town Motor & Body Works
Kent Town
Size: 75mm x 32mm

June 1988 Truck & Bus Transportation

June 1988 Truck & Bus Transportation

Hope

Hope was a Brisbane, Queensland automobile body builder from 1927 until the 1930's e.g. for Sunbeam buses and trams; Albion; Dodge; Morris; Hudson; ambulances etc. etc.

Charles Hope Pty Ltd manufactured automobile springs with the motto "Hope Springs Eternal", while Harold Hope built "high class bodies for motor cars, trucks and Commercial Vehicles".

Also part of the Ivan Hoffmann Collection but not appearing here are copies of articles; photos; Hopes Body Works catalogue of bodies for ambulance cars booklet (32 pages); brass rubbing.

Body Built by Hope
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

The Steering Wheel

Charles Hope Ltd & Hopes Body Works Ltd

Charles Hope - springs 1 December 1929 The Steering Wheel

Hopes Body Works - ambulance photo

factory

Hope Body Works - catalogue of bodies for ambulance cars booklet page 1

Hope Body Works - catalogue of bodies for ambulance cars booklet page 2

Hope Body Works - catalogue of bodies for ambulance cars booklet page 3

Hope Body Works - catalogue of bodies for ambulance cars booklet page 4

Jewitt

Jewitt (1953-1964) by Jim Jewitt of Melbourne, Victoria was a body builder and made fibreglass bodies for Holden racing vehicles etc.

A Jewitt body
Size: 43mm x 75mm

March 1961 Sports Car World page 1-2

March 1961 Sports Car World page 3

Duncan and Fraser

Duncan and Fraser where originally carriage makers i.e. body builders and later produced motorised vehicles in Adelaide, South Australia from 1900 until 1926. Marques they built bodies for included De Dion, Ford, Studebaker, Argyll, Rugby, Standard etc. etc.

15 September 1910 The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright

15 August 1913 The Australasian Coachbuilder and Wheelwright

www,AdelaideAZ

June 1988 Truck & Bus Transportation page 1

June 1988 Truck & Bus Transportation page 2

Rowe

Rowe was an Adelaide, South Australia automobile body builder from the 1940's until the 1950's.

Body by Rowe
146 O'Connell Street North Adelaide
(no longer in the Ivan Hoffmann Collection)

15 December 1948 Trademark

Ruskin

Ruskin was an automobile body builder in Melbourne, Victoria from 1930 until 1947 and marques built included Leyland, Morris, Fiat, Standard, Triumph etc. etc.

Ruskin (sill-plate)
Size: 287mm x 88mm

1934 Hillman

1936 Terraplane coupe

1936 Terraplane coupe

Tilbrook

Rex Tilbrook specialised in motorcycles and was a body builder of side cars from 1947 (including for the daredevil Globe of Death), in 1953 he also made a three-wheeled vehicle.

Also part of the Ivan Hoffmann Collection but not appearing here are copies of articles; web files; photos; side car booklet; Tilbrook memorabilia; Globe of Death motorcycle exhibitions information; images; transcript of Ivan Hoffmann’s Oral History interview with Rex Tilbrook.

Tilbrook (sidecar body badge)
Size: 55mm x 15mm

Restored Cars #38

17 December 1951 Trademark

Globe of Death

poster