National Body Corp. is another know builder of Commercial bodies from the
1930s. National supplied Overland Dispatch, the 1930s descendent of the
Butterfield Overland Dispatch, a firm commonly know as the "Overland Stage",
with some huge high-capacity van bodies for extended Ford 1 1/2 ton chassis
during the mid-thirties.
(pp 135 - Wagner's Ford Trucks since 1905)
National Body Manufacturing Corporation of Knightstown, Indiana was a firm
that specialized in professional cars and airport limousines and is probably
not the same firm.
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