Fisher Body Corporation and General Motors įisher Body Plant 21, Piquette and St. The Fisher Body and Buick chassis were built in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in the 1920s. This required the design of new precision woodworking tools. One reason for their success was the development of interchangeable wooden body parts that did not require hand-fitting, as was the case in the construction of carriages. By 1914 their operations had grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of auto bodies. Highly successful, they expanded into Canada, establishing a plant in Walkerville, Ontario. By 1913, the Fisher Body Company had the capacity to produce 100,000 cars per year and customers included: Ford, Krit, Chalmers, General Motors, and Studebaker. In the early years of the company, the Fisher Brothers had to develop new body designs because the "horseless carriage" bodies lacked the strength to withstand the vibration of the new motorcars. Starting in 1910, Fisher became the supplier of all closed bodies for Cadillac, Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile. It was built on the chassis of the 1905 Cadillac Model E. Leland to determine the feasibility of a car body that was closed to the elements. Prior to forming the company, Fred Fisher had built the first closed-body coupe, the 1905 Cadillac Osceola at the C. Soon Charles and Fred Fisher brought their five younger brothers into the business. Their uncle soon wanted out, and the brothers obtained the needed funds from businessman Louis Mendelssohn who became a shareholder and director. With financing from their uncle, on July 22, 1908, Fred and Charles Fisher established the Fisher Body Company. Wilson Company, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriage bodies that was beginning to make bodies for automobile manufacturers. In 19, the two eldest brothers, Fred and Charles, came to Detroit where their uncle Albert Fisher had established Standard Wagon Works during the latter part of the 1880s. Margaret Theisen Fisher lived in Detroit after her husband died. Lawrence and Margaret were married in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1876. Fisher (1852 Peru, Ohio – 1921, Norwalk, Ohio) and his wife Margaret Theisen (1857 Baden, Germany – 1936 Detroit, Michigan) had a large family of eleven children seven were sons who would become part of the Fisher Body Company in Detroit. Fisher, president of Fisher Body corporation in Detroit's Boston-Edison Historic District, designed by architect George Mason įisher Body's beginnings trace back to a horse-drawn carriage shop in Norwalk, Ohio, in the late 1800s. Tudor revival style mansion of Charles T.
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