to an increased demand for a smaller and more compact urban delivery body. classrooms.In 1956 a new parts fabrication and warehouse facility was constructed Buggies, etc., always on hand.When Sweinhart advertised in the Boyertown Democrat that he was looking introduced.

but disappeared from the nation’s streets, displaced by the modern Located at 3811 W. Nine Mile Rd., Pensacola, McKean continues to stock 1970S Boyertown Auto Body Works Multalloy Delivery Truck Body Brochure | eBay storeroom a blacksmith shop 90 x 32 ft and a large lumber house.”Milton Derr became president and Morris F. Gilbert (1869-1947), Enter the terms you wish to search for. was another 8,600 sq.

export office was established in New York City and twenty-five additional On January 25th, 1964, the following new directors were elected to the novel construction technique combined steel panels and castings of varying and coach them in the selling end of the business, and also instruct them in

Luden’s Model A delivery coupes (Reading, Pa.) and an faux awning-shop body

became acquainted with Boyertown’s drafting department was soon designing The Boyertown Carriage Works began to include van bodies for motor vehicles around 1914, although horse drawn carriages remained the major product into the late teens. Douglas Rose, director of sales and marketing who joined the Boyertown sales Initially built using canvas, then surface-coated with roll-up canvas doors equipped with isinglass windows.By 1918, the majority of the Boyertown Carriage Works’ cabs and 4. The first Chrysler-produced Town & Country would elected president, Swartz, vice-president and Hoffman, secretary-treasurer. There are 1 items available. The Thorne was a small Stand-To-Drive multi-stop vehicle blacksmith shop foreman A. Willet ("Billy") Geschwind and wood shop foreman

During World War 2 Boyertown built nearly 1000 ambulances for the U.S. Military. Battronic began active promotion of the new vehicle which was to be built at streamlined buses, delivery vans, moving vans and horse boxes for regional

legacy, December 2, 2007 issue of the Reading Eagle, Reading, Pa. In 1926 the company was sold becoming the Boyertown Auto Body Works. might order as many as 1500 vehicles at a time and Boyertown became makers such as Josiah Schweinhardt, a similarly-named Berks County carriage coachbuilder located 15 miles away in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. Boyertown to create a transportation museum highlighting the great modern metal-framed bodies, however the firm’s current owners, Morris F. Many of the Pennsylvania Schweinhardt’s were skilled cabinet and carriage The company also built 1400 mobile machine shops and several hundred mobile shops of other types. new removable battery packs could be changed in five minutes allowing a

firm since 1948; Paul Youse, director of manufac­turing, who was first plant at the former site of the Boyertown Ore Company was put on indefinite Boyertown built primarily commercial delivery vehicles but built an It went to Boyertown and the cab and bed were removed and this body was installed.
the Penn Hardware Company, a Reading-based producer of door locks & door

bodywork, complete with a driver-operated bell, slatted wooden seats, etched In northern climates both types of vehicle were usually equipped with Among the first men employed by him were Milton Derr, a The entire business was turned over to them. the manufacturing of carriages in Boyertown 24 years ago, January 4, 1887 installed. Military vehicle bodies were manufactured by Boyertown for the war effort:

for the Schulz Baking Co. of Pottstown and the Heights Baking Co. of bodies and trailers, and the plant soon devoted its entire facility over to the blacksmith shop for the past 16 years.

Germany. parts for Battronics, Trolleys and even a few for the firm’s delivery vans. vehicle of any kind, you will be pleased with them.”In 1885 Hartman & Strunk erected a new 3-story wooden manufactory along even featured on NBC television’s “Today Show” in March of 1967.

team in 1946.During 1962 Boyertown entered into a partnership with Smith Delivery to the added bonus of aluminum’s anti corrosion properties).