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 | | For the 1938 model year Sayers and Scovill introduced the industry's first landau or Victoria-style hearse, featuring a heavily-padded leather or vinyl roof with a blind quarter panel decorated by S-shaped irons (called landau bars) inspired by those used to lower the tops on horse-drawn Victorias in the 19th Century. |
 | | Moving on to the hardware inside the hearse, one finds that the sort of facilities enjoyed by the deceased on his or her last ride hardly differs from one coachbuilder's car to another, let alone any funeral coach produced in the last half century. |
 | | Eastern style flower cars were usually also available with a fixed deck, and sometimes a car was built with a fixed deck and an upholstered rear compartment, instead of the compartment being lined with stainless steel or aluminum, and such a car was generally referred to as a floral coach. |
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