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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.The Origins of the Limousine
2. The Traditions of Riding in the Back Seat
3. Chauffeurs
4. The Coachbuilders
5. The Factory Limousines
6. The Commercial Limousine Operators
7. Getting What You Want -- Buying a Limousine
8. The Limousine -- Inside and Out
9. Building a Stretch Limousine
10. Exotic Limousines
11. The Classics and the Not So Classic: Celebs, High Rollers and Their Limousines
12. Presidential Rides
13. Fit for a King -- Royal Limousines
14. Limousine Etiquette and How to Enjoy Riding in the Back Seat
15. The Cultured Limousine
16. Glossary (definitions as seen from the back seat of a limousine)

Photo Gallery

1. Welcome
2. Back Seat Riding
3. Cadillac Pages
4. Lincoln Pages
5. Lehmann-Peterson Pages
6. Limousines Pages
7. Reader Pages

Used by permission Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE Press, Copyright 2002 www.sae.org and by private contributors, as noted.

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Copyright 2002
by
Michael L. Bromley
All Rights Reserved

Building a Stretch Limousine

Building the Great Pierce-Arrow Way
(Courtesy Pierce-Arrow Society)

How do they make those things?
Chauffeurs must constantly respond to this question.
The more Malicious Chauffeur may not give a straight answer,
although the truth is startling enough: take a car and cut
it in half. Then make it longer. It's that simple.
Sort of...

You Start here...

(Courtesy Executive Coach  Builders)

Then you do this...
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(Courtesy Executive Coach  Builders)

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