42°23′03″N 82°58′44″W / 42.3840732°N 82.9788219°W
Industry | Automotive |
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Founded | 1920, United States |
Founders | Raymond Dietrich & Thomas Hibbard |
Fate | Purchased by Briggs Manufacturing Company in 1926 Incorporated into Chrysler Corporation in 1953 |
Headquarters | New York , |
Products | Custom bodied cars |
Services | Auto body design, Coachbuilding |
LeBaron Incorporated (originally LeBaron, Carrossiers Inc.) was an American design business from 1920 and also a coachbuilder from 1924 until 1953.
LeBaron was one of the many prominent coachbuilders in the 1920s to provide bodies for luxury cars. Until World War II most of the great prestige automakers like Duesenberg or Packard would readily supply only a running chassis which wealthy buyers would have fitted with custom bodywork. Automakers like Rolls-Royce and Hispano-Suiza only supplied a rolling chassis.
LeBaron Incorporated eventually became part of Chrysler Corporation.