Australian FalconsDiscuss the australian born and bred models here. Includes the 80's 90's and present day Falcons offered by Ford Oz.
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wasnt it some farmer who had a model A or T or whatever, who got sick of putting everything in the car so he thought stuff it ill just cut the back off, and then took it to ford australia and they decided it was a good idea and started producing them.
That's my understanding, hence no car company invented the ute.
Hi, if you type in "History of the ute" in google there is a good article which starts off with:
In 1932 a farmer's wife from Gippsland, Vic. wrote a letter of complaint to Ford Australia, saying that her husband wanted a car that could carry her 'to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Mondays'
Actually the reason most people assume that Holden made the first ute is that the 48-215 was the first all Australian designed car and there was a ute avaliable.
The 48-215 was designed in the USA and tested there before its release here.
And a bit of trivia for you all
Holden started as a coach body builder for Ford in Australia
Chrysler started as an engine builder for Ford in the USA
Mass production was originally called "Fordism" until Henry wrote to Britanica Encyclopedia and asked them to change it.
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Hi, if you type in "History of the ute" in google there is a good article which starts off with:
In 1932 a farmer's wife from Gippsland, Vic. wrote a letter of complaint to Ford Australia, saying that her husband wanted a car that could carry her 'to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Mondays'
I think it was the farmers wife. She wanted a car to carry livestock to the market during the week and on Sunday good enough to go to church in.
I agree, i have a video called 'Ford Australia, 75 years" and it details how a farmers wife wrote to ford Aus as you said, and Ford designed one, it was nicknamed the Kangaroo chaser, shortly after Ford started production on the aussie ute.
Holden started as a coach body builder for Ford in Australia
Sort of; they actually started of in the late 1800's making stuff for horses and buggies including leather goods like horse collars, bridles etc They eventually sold the leather business to Harriss and Scarfe in 1925. This business, Holden & Frost, made Holdfast trimmings (leather/canvas roofs etc) for cars starting some time before 1910. Holden branched out from this to make sidecars for Harley Davidson's (sold as Goulding Sidecars). The first car body was made by Holden on a Hotchkiss chassis around 1916. The second body was for a Maxwell car.This was followed by one built on a Rover chassis. Holden and Frost subsequently took over FT Hack Ltd which was and continued to make Ford bodies (but Holden actually bought it to build bodies on Dodge chassis so it could also be argued in terms of large scale body building operations in their own name they started out as builders for Dodge cars). Holden Motor Body Builders then built bodies for Dodge, Bean, Essex (my father had a 1928 Hudson Essex Super Six Ute with a Holden body but it seems likely it was cut down from a tourer body and converted to a ute after it was originally made) and Overland. Source "So Great a Change - The Story of the Holden Family in Australia" Nancy Buttfield Ure Smith Sydney 1979. Also see http://holden.itgo.com/holden_history.html
I have seen another identical Essex ute driving around Perth (and our was scrapped and the chassis turned into a farm trailer when it was replaced with a Vanguard Spacemaster) so i went Google searching and found this: http://groups.msn.com/HudsonMotorCar...to&PhotoID=258
It different from the one we had (more like this http://www.geocities.com/hetnznz/mem...dson-Truck.JPGand the one I see it Perth (the tray extended beyond the side of the cab) but I wonder if Holden may in fact have made a number of Holden tourer bodied Essex utes or light trucks.
For most years from 1926 to 1947 Hudson produced light pickup trucks
and "commercial vehicles" under various names, depending on the year: Essex, Dover, Terraplane and (after 1938) Hudson.
Other specialty cars offered
by Hudson in the 1930's and 1940's included panel deliveries,
"woody" wagons, coupes with slide-out pickup beds in the trunk -- even a "stand-up" delivery
van! Ambulances, hearses and limousines were also produced on Hudson chassis
by outside body companies.
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