page_title: Fleetwood Metal Body
section_title: Purchase by Fisher
hierarchical_section_title: Fleetwood Metal Body / Purchase by Fisher
caption_attribution_description: English: Nineteen-thirties Cadillac Fleetwood V8 seen at Kemble Airfield, Kemble, Gloucestershire, England. Can anyone date this vehicle more accurately, please? The narrow vents on the side of the hood indicate that it is prior to 1930, the placement of the lights on the tops of the fenders was in 1929 not 1928. Thus it must be a 1929 model. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in June 2004 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Fleetwood Metal Body was an automobile coachbuilder formed on April 1, 1909. Its name derives from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, home of the company at the start, and lived on for decades in the form of the Cadillac Fleetwood and various Fleetwood trim lines on Cadillac cars.
context_section_description: Fleetwood was purchased by Fisher Body in 1925, and became an OEM provider of bodies for Detroit Assembly on Clark Street, and integrated into General Motors in 1931. The factory in Delray, Michigan, approximately 2 miles east of the Ford River Rouge Complex; Fisher Freeway named for the original factory location later became to be known as Fisher Plant #18. The location was closed in 1987 when manufacturing was transferred to the Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly factory, and the site was redeveloped as the Container Port Group Detroit facility.
  Similar to LeBaron, Fleetwood continued to build bespoke bodies for several years, mainly for Cadillac. In the early 1930s Fleetwood-bodied Cadillacs often wore a sweep panel across cowl and hood. After 1934 and before Fleetwood was made a model name of Cadillac, it was responsible for elaborate detailing on expensive Cadillacs with standard bodies.
caption: 1929 Cadillac V-8 series 341-B Imperial sedan or limousine, body by Fleetwood
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