Waterhouse Company

The Waterhouse Company of Webster, Massachusetts were coachbuilders making high quality custom bodies for chassis supplied by the major automotive businesses.

Convertible victoria on a 1930 Pierce-Arrow B chassis

Waterhouse was founded in 1928 by Charles L Waterhouse (1870-1953) with his sons Moses Sargent Waterhouse and Charles L Waterhouse junior. Charles L Waterhouse senior had been a key employee at Judkins and the brothers had spent some years there.[1]

When demand was high in 1929 they received an order from Packard's export department for a car to be exhibited at the Paris salon. It was a very short notice order which no other coachbuilder would accept. The new body attracted the attention of Packard's president and orders for duplicates followed.[1]

The doors were closed on the coachbuilding section in 1933[1] but they continued to make small boats and during World War 2 supplied marine ordnance and, after the war, furniture.

Waterhouse also put their custom bodies on Pierce-Arrow, Lincoln, Du Pont and Chrysler chassis and on chassis by Marmon and Stutz.

References
  1. Hugo Pfau, The Coachbuilt Packard, Darlton Watson, London 1973 ISBN 0901564109
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