Hooper & Co. was a British coachbuilding business for many years based in Westminster London. From 1805 to 1959 it was a notably successful maker, to special order, of luxury carriages, both horse-drawn and motor-powered.
Post-phaeton Windsor Greys in perfect step made for Queen Victoria, 1842
Drags of the Four-in-Hand Club Mr Holroyd, Lord Lonsdale and the Duke of Sutherland (sharing driving) on the box of the drag in the foreground
Tourer 1920 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost chassis
Limousine 1929 on a Rolls-Royce Phantom I chassis
A coachbuilder or body-maker is a person or company who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles. Coachwork is the body of an automobile, bus, horse-drawn carriage, or railway carriage. The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs. A vehicle body constructed by a coachbuilder may be called a "coachbuilt body" or "custom body".
Ash body frame ready to be clad in metal mounted on a Morgan 4/4 chassis
The coachbuilder's wooden frame fixed to its replica Bentley chassis
Original 1930 Bentley Speed Six Gurney Nutting coupé
Portugal 18th century