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----- Original Message -----
From: ed-moore


Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:33 AM

Subject: Re: [HSS] Fwd: Biddle & Smart Hudsons



     Hi,   How is the
Biddle-Smart Information working out?

   I would be very interested in any information pertaining to
1929 such as factory colors,production numbers, any information on where cars
were shipped to.   I'm going to forward a couple of photos; 1929 Essex
Boattail Roadster, 1929 Hudson Sport Phaeton, both Biddle-Smart Bodies.

----- Original Message -----

From:
ed-moore

To: ed-moore

Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:22
AM

Subject: Fw: [HSS] Fwd: Biddle &
Smart Hudsons



 

----- Original Message -----
From: Lew Phelps



Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:01 PM

Subject: [HSS] Fwd: Biddle & Smart Hudsons


Greeting to all on the list.

I recently got a very
interesting email from Tom Hall, a gentleman in Amesbury, MA, which SuperSix
afficionadoes will recognize as the home of Biddle & Smart, custom coach
builders for Hudson, princes, and kings.

Obviously, there are people on
this list who can assist in the project. If you have any information that
would be of use to Tom, please send it to him directly, and CC me.

I
will be working with Tom to build a web site that would embody the information
they have available, including the data from three brochures produced by
B&S in 1922.

Let's all help to make this a successful project; it
will add a lot to our knowledge of the SuperSix Hudson era if it's well
done.

Lew Phelps

Begin forwarded message:
From: "Tom Hall"
<lthall@adelphia.net>
Date: June 7, 2004 7:03:55 PM PDT
To:
<hudsontownsedan@earthlink.net>
Subject:
Biddle & Smart Hudsons

Lewis,
 
Over
the past several years a group of history oriented locals have been working
on a project to recreate the coachbuilding history in the Amesbury
Massachusetts area.  There has been some written on
J.B. Judkin from neighboring Merrimac but nothing on the Amesbury
Coachbuilders.  The first orders for bodies were for steam cars
such as Grout, Locomobile, Waltham, and Stanley just before 1900.
 
The
end came around 1930 by Walker Body with Franklin Air Cooled,
Biddle & Smart with Hudson losing there contracts.  The companies
from Detroit came to this area and bought up the tools and moved everything
to the Detroit area.
 
Hudson
cars was a the major coachwork that Biddle & Smart supplied during the
1920's and possible before.  Biddle & Smart had an in-house
newsletter called "The Mutual Tattler" we have a small collection at
our library and have borrowed copies from interested people and
organizations.  They have been a great resource of production
numbers, colors, and which models they built, the copies we have access to
are between 1926 and 1929. Do you know of anyone that has access to this
newsletter?
 
Your
internet site on 1929 Hudson's is
fantastic!!!!!!!
 
I
would love to share what I have collected in our research and find others
that have an interest in Biddle & Smart Hudson's or any of the cars
bodied by the dozen or more Amesbury coachbuilders. 
 
Sincerely,
Thomas
Hall
1
Clarks
Rd
Amesbury,
MA
978 388
7188
lthall@adelphia.net
fax
978 834
0323  
 
 
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