Lindsay Steel Body Construction

[mlombard]

Hi

Thanks very much for this most interesting I am now a lot more informed on the subject and understand it much better. Ah yes Hanno you right just typing Lyndsay Body into The Google is not very helpful unless you want to look at Lyndsay Lohan all day!

The brochures, links and posts are all very interesting, but I guess this all begs the question who was Lyndsay, sorry I had to ask. I might assume he (again I assume this too) took out the patent on this idea and licensed it to various people, amongst others Wilson Motor Bodies of Canada, hence them ending up on CMP's

Thanks again

Matt

[mlombard]

Hanno

You just answered my question then!

Thanks

Matt

[mlombard]

Hi Again

H B Lyndsay is Harvey B Lyndsay, I tried looking him up on Google, and oh no! more pictures of you know who, whose only attribution to motor bodies seems to be to twist them out of shape. anyway it appears that Havey B worked for Dry Zero Corp. and there is a page on ebay for one of their newsletters (see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dry-Zero-Cor...-/390733799552 ) if your interested. It appears Dry Zero Corp were into the manufacture of ice cream trucks before WWII. So Harvey's bodies may have originally come from a better way to build insulated structures, before being applied to general body building

Matt

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by mlombard

it appears that Havey B worked for Dry Zero Corp. and there is a page on ebay for one of their newsletters (see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dry-Zero-Cor...-/390733799552 ) if your interested. It appears Dry Zero Corp were into the manufacture of ice cream trucks before WWII. So Harvey's bodies may have originally come from a better way to build insulated structures, before being applied to general body building

I guess you're right as Harvey B Lyndsay writes in his patent application: "The invention has application to a wide range of housing structures including refrigerator structures especially of the transport type, and passenger and freight car bodies." (my bold). Lindsay's other patents are also related to refrigeration, or rather, insulation.

PS: it seems Google's algorithms aren't so smart as we all think, as they would show far fewer compound curved Lindsay bodies - that was the beauty of the Lindsay Structure body, subject of our discussion here

[mlombard]

all I can say!

[mlombard]

Hi

I reckon that there might be an article in this with a great title like:

When The Ice Cream Truck Went To War, Harvey B Lyndsay and the Lyndsay Structure, How the ice cream truck ended up on the front line