Talk:Hearse

message: Is there a specific name for the 'large metal S-shaped bars' found on American hearses?
Auster1 15:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doohicky.  Rklawton 16:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Landau bar(s), named for the type of carriages they used to be found on. The bars were actually part of a folding-top mechanism, but the current ones are purely aesthetic.Improbcat 16:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: S-shaped bars

message: Hey, I'm not a member, but I was wondering if someone could please add in that an old model Cadillac hearse was used by the Rogues gang in the film "The Warriors". Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.185.37.81 (talk) 11:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearses in Cultural References 

message: The 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor was not the car used in Harold and Maude. That was a 1959 Cadillac Superior. Completely different coach builders.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.39.243 (talk) 21:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Most Desireable Hearse?

message: In some countries, undertakes use  vans which are sign-written as 'Private Ambulance' (often black)  to  transporting cadavers around. They also frequently have certain traffic and parking exemptions granted them. Does anybody here have inside knowledge; as this type of  vehicles  has fallen between the gap of  'hearse' proper and 'ambulance' proper. --Aspro (talk) 10:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: These are combination cars.  Some funeral businesses run ambulance businesses on the side.  This is common in Europe, and the funeral coaches employed are of the American type, with landau bars, vinyl roofs, and curtains.  They are generally licenced as ambulances (licenced drivers may disobey local traffic laws when necessary) and their number plates carry an undertaker designation.  There are one or two seats in the rear cargo area, and the "Seats" designation on the car registration is usually "2+1+2", "4+1" or "5" ("Beds" always carries a value of "1").  Some doctors use them as fly-cars.  --69.158.124.43 (talk) 23:44, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Black ambulances

message: The Hearse enthusiasts section has some false information. ECTO-1 fron Ghostbusters was formerly an ambulance, not a hearse. The windows and sirens/lights are the proof.
The famous hearse in Harold & Maude was built from a Jaguar E-Type (believe it or not) and not a Cadillac. --Ezn (talk) 05:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right and wrong, Ezn.  The Ectomobile was a combination car.  It was a Cadillac ambulance and funeral coach, since many funeral homes operated (and perhaps continue to operate) ambulance services in addition to first-call and funeral coach services.  They would be painted white, black, brown, or silver, with a removable decal bearing the words PRIVATE AMBULANCE, and a removable, often "gum-ball" style revolving light.  Coroner's vans were often also of this construction, except, usually, the revolving light was not removable.  Generally, also, the decal was not removable and said CITY MORTUARY.  Ever since the motor-coach's inception, they have had windows in the back in the "Limousine style".  In the 70s, manufacturers, such as Sayers and Scovill, and Miller-Meteor, began to add leather and vinyl roofs and non-windowed rear compartments.  That is now the standard funeral coach "look" in the United States, and, somewhat, in Canada, but it is not recognised elsewhere as such, because other locations continue to prefer the limousine style.  I own a funeral coach in Great Britain, and people compliment me on my choice of mini-van.  No curtains are employed, either; instead, the client is laid on the bier surrounded by flowers in full view of passing cars and pedestrians.   --69.158.124.43 (talk) 23:36, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearses in films 

message: The word "hearse" is not politically correct.  Please redirect to funeral coach.  Just like we don't talk of graveyards, we talk of cemeteries; and we don't talk of burials, we talk of interments; and we don't talk about the onset of death, but the cessation of life.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.124.43 (talk) 23:52, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to "professional car" or "funeral coach" 

message: The first half of the history section is poorly written, and poorly punctuated.  I don't know enough about the topic to venture fixing it myself, but I would very much like to see improvements made. Disturbed286 (talk) 08:44, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Is it true that surfers frequently bought hearses because they could carry their boards in them?
68.110.237.188 (talk) 01:03, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Surfers

message: Removed these two paragraphs from the article, since there was no sourcing from them and they're just lists (almost certainly not exhaustive) of manufacturers. Close to advertising? (esp. given the photo earlier in the article of "Coleman Milne" hearses with advertising-like language.)
::People who make hearses in the UK include; Eagle Specialist Vehicles (Wilcox Limousines), Coleman Milne, Duffy and Fearghas Quinn of Ireland. They are based on Jaguar, Mercedes and GM Vauxhall/Opel.
::Stateside coachbuilders, past and present, include Miller-Meteor, Superior, Eureka, Cotner-Bevington, Flxible, National, Eagle, Consort, Sayers & Scovill (S&S), Hess and Eisenhart, Henley used by Pack Soonersfan168 (talk) 04:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  advertising language 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: From :fr:Corbillard
Hearse-r.jpg| Traditional hearse (about 1900, Queensland).
Eglise Arc-en-Barrois 281008.jpg|CoAncient hearse (church of Arc-en-Barrois, France).
Coche Fúnebre.JPG| Maipú, Chile. 
Ter6.jpg|jewish hearse, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezín, Czech Republic. 
White hearse wagon.jpg|White hearse, USA.
Corbillard 3.JPG|Ancient hearse hippomobile (France)
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thread_title:  From the French 

message: 'large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car' you could just say 'a long car' 💀💀💀💀💀 115.166.13.157 (talk) 12:21, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  seriously