Mifflinberg Body

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By aroberts1948 on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 08:03 pm:

Would anyone with knowledge or any info at all about Mifflinberg Bodies please contact me. I am restoring a 25 Huckster and need help.

In Richmond,Indiana last summer I could not find even 1 Mifflinberg Body.

What I need is drawings or specs. I do have the irons.


Arthur "T"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mike catlin on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 08:17 pm:

if you go to coachbuiltcars.com you will find pics of these bodies


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By greg adams on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 08:19 pm:

You can google Mifflinberg Body ---were built in Mifflinberg, Pa.---Plenty of history on the site---__May lead you to something


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Perigo on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 09:03 pm:

I have a copy of a Mifflinburg Catalog I can copy for you.

Mike


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By "Hap" (Harold) Tucker on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 09:26 pm:

Arthur,

There is actually quite a bit on the Mifflinburg bodies. Please see below:


Website dedicated to the Mifflinburg bodies:
http://www.enquip.com/Mifflinburg.html


Craig Sutton has one in pieces and another in very good shape.
See:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/39803.html

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/39498.html
Below shows his progress on his first one (the project)
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/22917.html

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/22623.html

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/38157.html


Roland Palmatier has a 1921

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/25695.html

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/29/22226.html

Misc:

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/50893/78483.html

Respectfully submitted,

Hap Tucker 1915 Model T Ford touring cut off and made into a pickup and 1907 Model S Runabout. Sumter SC


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 09:40 pm:

Arthur

I've a '25 Mifflinburg Body Co Catalog, if you can tell me the body number type or describe the style body, I can email you a large scan of the body.





Dan


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Perigo on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 10:12 am:

I have always wondered how the pull-down shade type of side curtain worked and what the mechanism looked like. To me, it's a neat set-up, one that i would like to duplicate. Does anyone have any info and/or photos of this arrangement?

Thanks,
Mike


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 11:36 am:

Mike

I think there was no mechanism, just the simple roll down curtain. The bottom seam may have held a thin wood stiffener if the the curtain was full width or very wide.

The rolled up curtain was held up with tie strap at the roof line. The curtain rolled down would be held to the side wall or pillars with typical lift the dot or twist type curtain fasteners.





Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Perigo on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 06:42 am:

Thanks, Dan

I always wondered. I think that arrangement makes for a nice appearance.....not sure how effective it would. But again, side curtains in general are not all that effective:-)

Mike


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By aroberts1948 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 07:01 am:

THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE GREAT RESPONCE.

I willl get to work following the leads you have given me.

I think the body was a 110 Express but the original owner called it a Huckster

This T has only had 3 owners, Ralph Gray of Upper Marlboro, MD and his uncle befor him.

According to the info I got, the truck was running until the 70s when it got knocked over in a thunderstorm and the body was ruined.

Everything is rebuilt , except the body, and I am almost ready to try and crank it but am a little afraid to try.


Thanks again for the help & wish me luck!

Arthur Roberts


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By aroberts1948 on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 07:26 am:

Does anyone know if the regular T bodies have a steel reinforcement beam as the Ton Truck bodies show in the Mifflinberg catalog.

Thanks,

Arthur


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 11:02 am:

Arthur

According to the catalog page for the Style 110, the subrails did have metal "reinforced irons on the sub-sills" to provide more support to the body. Mifflinburg must have had that feature on the commercial T body and TT truck as the catalog mentions this feature.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR. on Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 11:19 am:

Arthur -- "Huckster Wagon" (or simply Huckster) is and was a common name for the Express type of body.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Arthur Roberts on Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 11:59 am:

The front mof my new 110 is just finished and now I am ready to start building the maion part of the body and realized that even though I know what the Mifflinburg 110 body looks like and can deduce a lot of the measurements, I don't know the dimentions of the beams, posts, slats, etc..

Would someone with a Mifflinburg body or actual drawing allow me to copy the information I need to build mine.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Sutton on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 11:33 pm:

Arthur, where are you located?

Craig


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Sutton on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 11:38 am:

Arthur, are you still out there? I've emailed you as well. Hope to see another one come back to life.

Craig
craigsutton427atyahoo.com Replace at with @


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