He was the son of a carriage-builder at Lyon.

The company was founded in 1926 by a local carriage-builder, Marinus den Oudsten.

On leaving school, Bobby became an apprentice coach-builder until he was forced out at gunpoint by loyalists.

He was educated locally, also learning the trade of carpentry, and later worked as a painter and coach-builder in Montreal.

Loss's daughter Jennifer was the wife of British coach-builder Robert Jankel.

Darrin was a legendary custom coach-builder and the only U.S. designer to get his name on a postwar production car.

Eventually, coach-builders in Paris began to call covered coaches limousines (some speculate the first coach-builder to do so was from Limousin).

After receiving an elementary education at the local school, he became an apprentice to John Ferguson, an Aspatria coach-builder of some repute.

He attended Wilton Free School and then obtained an apprenticeship with a Salisbury coach-builder and wheelwright.

Lyons commissioned the talented coach-builder Cyril Holland to produce a distinctive open tourer: the Austin Seven Swallow.

When he was sixteen his family moved to Bath where the patronage of an opulent coach-builder named Spackman, allowed him to follow his talent as an artist.

The coachwork was built by a leading Parisian coach-builder Alfred Belvallette, the front axle units were built by Darracq.

Don Remington himself was a coach-builder, carriage restorer and coach, carriage and sleigh historian and it is with first hand knowledge that he restored the carriages in his collection.

Paine worked as a coach-builder at Eastleigh's British Railways depot, and played his early football for his local club, Winchester City and featured in their Amateur Cup run in 1956-57.

At about the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a coach-builder in London and later went to lodge in the house of P F Chenu, the sculptor where he took to modelling.

It began feuing ground on the south side of Princes Street (on the site of the current Balmoral Hotel) for the building of houses and workshops for a coach-builder and a furniture-maker.

He worked as a saddler and coach-builder in different German cities, then moved to Paris, and then London, where in 1795 he established a print-shop and drawing-school in The Strand.

Other influences were the Italian coach-builder Ghia's designs for Chrysler, and work of Pininfarina, who had been commissioned to produce a coupé and convertible on the Rover P4 chassis prior to Bache's arrival.

Inspired by Louis Blériot, a Frenchman who was the first to fly across the English Channel in July 1909, D'Angelis collaborated with Simpson's, a leading coach-builder in the city, to build a biplane.

A coach-builder by trade, his public career started when he was comparatively young, and he became a champion of the workers of Cork and a driving force in establishing and maintaining trade unionism in the city-often against severe opposition.

In 1564 Guilliam Boonen came from the Netherlands to be Queen Elizabeth's first coach-builder -thus introducing the new European invention of the spring-suspension coach to England, as a replacement for the litters and carts of an earlier transportation mode.

The Karmann Ghia combined the chassis and mechanicals of the Type 1 (Beetle) with styling by Luigi Segre of the Italian carrozzeria Ghia and hand-built bodywork by the German coach-builder Karmann.