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Budd was primarily a builder of railroad cars, passenger cars and the like. I'm not familiar with their 1920's history, but they did occasionally build bodies for cars - the stillborn Rambler coupe that would have competed with the Mustang (and come out two years sooner to boot) comes to mind. I could not get the attachment to download, I kept getting an error message.

Standard Catalog of Chrysler only notes that the 1923 models featured Dodge's first all-steel bodies; it's possible there was a tie-in.

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Pontiac59

Thanks for the reply. You are right about the first DB all steel car. My car was built in Aug 1922 as a 1923 model and was first titled as a 1922. Therefore it is a first year all steel body.

If you care to go to Dodge Brothers Club forum and scroll down until you see "another hard question" in the subject. Open that one and the attachment there still will open. It must have gotten lost in this forum when the changeover took place.

vsully

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Budd was the company that developed the all-steel body. They built bodies for Dodge Brothers into the early 1930's. The Dodge Brothers Victory Six of 1928 was the first all-steel sedan (except for the roof). Budd had to change the all-steel floor to wood due to the drumming sound as the car rode along. Steel is not as good a sound insulator as wood.

Budd also had a hand in developing the unit body. They engineered, and built, the unit body for the French Citroen Traction-Avant of the 1930's. Nash worked with Budd engineers to develop the unit body for the 1941 Nash 600.

And while Briggs worked with Ford to develop the Lincoln Zephyr, it was Budd that worked with Chrysler to develop the Airflow. And Budd supplied a fair number of the Airflow stampings.

Studebaker used Budd to supply a lot of their major stampings from the 1930's. Ford also used Budd as a body parts supplier from the 1940's as Briggs concentrated more on its Chrysler and Packard business.

Budd also had body plants in Britain and Germany (Ambi-Budd).

Bill

Vancouver, BC

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Bill:

Thanks to you also for your reply and information.

However, I am still at a loss for information as to where this placard should be placed on the body of the car. I'M sure that it wasn't ment to be glued to a loose piece of metal as I have indicated in my original post. Any Ideas on that ? ? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Vsully

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<< I am still at a loss for information as to where this placard should be placed on the body of the car. >>

The 32 Chrysler CH series has one metal Budd plate spot welded to the firewall and a differentversion Budd plate spot welded to the inside front door panel.

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