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Lang Body Co. - 1920-1927 - Cleveland, Ohio

Started by the Lang family after they sold their interest in Rausch & Lang Carriage Company. They built semi-custom bodies for Dodge and similar cars from 1920-1924.

The Lang Body Company of Cleveland, Ohio, sold their interest in Rauch & Lang Carriage Company, and began building semi-custom bodies for Dodge. Several early Model L Lincoln bodies were built by them. It was a family owned business started in 1920, and was out of business by 1924.

Built production bodies for Lincoln, Dodge and Stutz.

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Then in Cleveland was the Lang Body Company, set up by members of the Lang family of Rauch & Lang after their electric car business had been merged with Baker. They built production bodies for Lincoln as well as some other higher priced cars. They became involved with building bus bodies, and eventually dropped out of passenger car body building in the late twenties (1924). Probably out of business in 1927.

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Actually, Brunn was responsible for the design of most of the new series of production bodies for the Lincoln introduced soon after Ford took control of that company. As with later models from the drawing boards of other custom builders, Brunn developed the ideas and built the first few bodies in their own shop. If these met with Edsel Ford's approval, the designs were then adapted for production, most of the closed bodies from the Towson Body Company in Detroit and the open ones from the American Body Company in Buffalo. Some came from other quality shops such as H. H. Babcock (where Hermann A. Brunn had worked for a while) and the Lang Body Company in Cleveland, started by members of the Lang family after they had sold their Rauch & Lang electric car business to Baker Electric, to form Baker, Rauch & Lang.

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Lang Body Company - Cleveland, Ohio - The builder of the funeral coach shown on the opposite page mounted on a Pierce-Arrow model Z chassis is the Lang Body Company of Cleveland, Ohio

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Rauch & Lang of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1899. They began building electric cars in 1904. In 1916, they merged with Baker Vehicle Company who built electric car parts and car bodies, and manufactured the Owen-Magnetic car. Baker, Rauch & Lang then purchased the Leon Rubay Company of Cleveland at bankruptcy in 1922. The company was also known as Baker-Raulang. At the 1929 Auto Salons, they displayed their Ruxton Town Car. A few quality custom bodies and production bodies were built by them for Stearns-Knight and Peerless. Baker-Raulang ceased auto body production in 1939, but remains in business as suppliers of body parts and electronic equipment.

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For more information see Baker-Raulang

For more information please read:

Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Car

Beverly Rae Kimes - The Classic Era

Beverly Rae Kimes - Packard: A History of the Motorcar and Company

Beverly Rae Kimes & Henry Austin Clark Jr. - Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942

Richard Burns Carson - The Olympian Cars

Raymond A. Katzell - The Splendid Stutz

Marc Ralston - Pierce Arrow

Brooks T. Brierley - There Is No Mistaking a Pierce Arrow

Brooks T. Brierley - Auburn, Reo, Franklin and Pierce-Arrow Versus Cadillac, Chrysler, Lincoln and Packard