Lindsay Steel Body Construction

[mlombard]

Hi Again

H B Lyndsay is Harvey B Lyndsay, I tried looking him up on Google, and oh no! more pictures of you know who, whose only attribution to motor bodies seems to be to twist them out of shape. anyway it appears that Havey B worked for Dry Zero Corp. and there is a page on ebay for one of their newsletters (see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dry-Zero-Cor...-/390733799552 ) if your interested. It appears Dry Zero Corp were into the manufacture of ice cream trucks before WWII. So Harvey's bodies may have originally come from a better way to build insulated structures, before being applied to general body building

Matt

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by mlombard

it appears that Havey B worked for Dry Zero Corp. and there is a page on ebay for one of their newsletters (see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dry-Zero-Cor...-/390733799552 ) if your interested. It appears Dry Zero Corp were into the manufacture of ice cream trucks before WWII. So Harvey's bodies may have originally come from a better way to build insulated structures, before being applied to general body building

I guess you're right as Harvey B Lyndsay writes in his patent application: "The invention has application to a wide range of housing structures including refrigerator structures especially of the transport type, and passenger and freight car bodies." (my bold). Lindsay's other patents are also related to refrigeration, or rather, insulation.

PS: it seems Google's algorithms aren't so smart as we all think, as they would show far fewer compound curved Lindsay bodies - that was the beauty of the Lindsay Structure body, subject of our discussion here

[mlombard]

all I can say!

[mlombard]

Hi

I reckon that there might be an article in this with a great title like:

When The Ice Cream Truck Went To War, Harvey B Lyndsay and the Lyndsay Structure, How the ice cream truck ended up on the front line