Peak shipments came in 1926, when the company delivered 41,000 bodies to Hudson. The lucrative contract with Hudson would see Biddle and Smart buy up many smaller local coachbuilders to meet the Hudson demand. From 1923, Hudson bodies were built exclusively by Massachusetts company Biddle and Smart. built bodies for Hudson cars (as well as many other automotive marques) until they were bought out by General Motors in 1919.
For 1914 Hudsons for the American market were now left hand drive.Ĭoachbuilder Fisher Body Co. It was designed by the firm of renowned industrial architect Albert Kahn with 223,500 square feet and opened on October 29, 1910. A new facility was built on a 22-acre (8.9 ha) parcel at Jefferson Avenue and Conner Avenue in Detroit's Fairview section that was diagonally across from the Chalmers Automobile plant. Successful sales volume required a larger factory. This was the best first year's production in the history of the automobile industry and put the newly formed company in 17th place industry-wide, "a remarkable achievement at a time" when there were hundreds of makes being marketed. The new Hudson "Twenty" was one of the first low-priced cars on the American market and became successful with 4,508 sold the first year. The company quickly started production, with the first car driven out of a small factory in Detroit on July 3, 1909, at Mack Avenue and Beaufait Street on the East Side of Detroit, occupying the old Aerocar factory. (Chapin's son, Roy Jr., would later be president of Hudson-Nash descendant American Motors Corporation in the 1960s). Chapin Sr., a young executive who had worked with Ransom E. One of the lead "car men" and an organizer of the company was Roy D. A total of eight Detroit businessmen formed the company on February 20, 1909, to produce an automobile which would sell for less than US$1,000 (equivalent to approximately $30,159 in 2021 funds ). Hudson, a Detroit department store entrepreneur and founder of Hudson's department store, who provided the necessary capital and gave permission for the company to be named after him.
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