Bohman & Schwartz

Bohman & Schwartz was an American wheelwright company based in Pasadena, California .

The company was founded in April 1932 by Swedish- born Christian Bohman (1892–1950) and his friend, the born Austrian Maurice Schwartz (1884–1961). Both were already in their homeland as carriages - resp. Worked as a coachbuilder, Bohman in Stockholm and Schwartz at the kuk Hofwagen-Fabrik S. Armbruster in Vienna, which manufactured carriages and motor vehicle bodies for the imperial court. The two took over the body construction company Walter M. Murphy Company , which was dissolved in the same year and in which Bohman had been employed until 1930.

Bohman & Schwartz became famous for its luxurious bodies on Duesenberg chassis. Customers included: B. Clark Gable , Bill Robinson, and Barbara Hutton . Vehicles for Hollywood films were also made, such as B. Gauner mit Herz (1938) and Topper . In 1937 the largest Duesenberg ever built, the “Throne Car”, a vehicle weighing three tons on a chassis with a 4521 mm wheelbase for the preacher Father Divine , was dressed.

In 1947 the company was dissolved by mutual agreement of the owners; Bohman continued to work with his son on a smaller scale. This company still existed until 2004 at least.

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