Ambi-Budd was a German automobile body company founded by Edward Gowen Budd.
Ambi Budd built the bodies for the Adler 2.5-litre 4-door saloon
In Germany, Edward Gowen Budd worked with Arthur Müller and set up a steel pressing plant Ambi Budd Presswerke (ABP) in the old Rumpler factory and became a successful supplier of pressed-steel components. "Ambi" stood for "Arthur Müller Bauten und Industriewerke".[1] Budd Philadelphia U.S. owned 26% of the Adler stock and were located next door to the German assembly plant for American associate Chrysler.[2] Budd supplied bodies for early BMWs as well as German Fords. In 1943, the company had to move production underground due to bomb attacks from the allied air forces. They also made parts for the Focke Wulf fighter, jerrycans, and bodies for the Volkswagen Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen light vehicles. The Berlin plants were completely destroyed by bombing during World War II. After the war, the Budd plant ended up in the Soviet sector. The machines and tools were dismantled and most of them shipped to the Soviet Union.
Ambi-Budd merged with Thyssen AG and Krupp AG in 1999 becoming a part of ThyssenKrupp[citation needed] and known as Thyssen-Krupp Budd.
Thyssen-Krupp Budd North America body and chassis operations were acquired in November 2006 by Martinrea International.[3]
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Ambi-Budd was a German automobile body company founded by Edward Gowen Budd. In Germany, Edward Gowen Budd worked with Arthur Müller and set up a steel...
(Cowley, England), which built bodies for Morris Motors and others, and Ambi-Budd (Germany), which supplied Adler, Audi, BMW, NAG and Wanderer; and earned...
1936 cars continued to come from Ambi-Budd while production of the four seater cabriolet bodies was split between Ambi-Budd and Karmann of Osnabrück. The...
Mulliners or Pressed Steel in Great Britain, Fisher Body, Budd, Briggs in the U. S., or Ambi-Budd in Germany. Many other big businesses remain involved....
facilities in Stuttgart; with the bodies (or rather hulls) produced by AmbiBudd in Berlin. 15,584 Type 166 Schwimmwagen were produced from 1941 through...
by Daimler-Benz's coachworks in Sindelfingen, and later by Ambi-Budd in Berlin. Ambi-Budd would also offer a two-seat sports cabriolet for the 303. At...
column mounted lever. The two standard all-steel bodies were provided by Ambi-Budd of Berlin. Trumpf customers in 1932 could choose between a two door “Limousine”...
1936 during the Spanish Civil War, where they had a company logo for Ambi-Budd Presswerk GmbH. Among others, the Wehrmacht had specified that a soldier...
column-mounted lever. Three standard all-steel bodies were provided in 1938 by Ambi-Budd of Berlin. Customers could choose between a four-door “Limousine” (saloon/sedan)...
steel car bodies, Ambi-Budd's Berlin based business. It was, in fact, the first all-steel standard car body produced by Ambi-Budd in Berlin and, incongruously...
four-door “Limousine” (sedan/Saloon) came with an all-steel body from Ambi-Budd, the country's largest specialist steel body producer, based in the Spandau...
liked the proven versatility of the Volkswagen chassis demonstrated by AmbiBudd, Karmann and other coachworks. Hirst ended the war as a major. Two of...
mainstream "limousine" (saloon) steel bodies were bought in from the AmbiBudd factory in Berlin, while the "cabrio-Limousine" (soft-top saloons/sedans)...
transmission and the standard all-steel body which, as before, came from Ambi-Budd in the Spandau district of Berlin. 400 of these cars were built before...
tourer, and a rolling chassis. The bodies are all-steel, and made by Ambi-Budd. The frame is a low-profile ladder frame made from rectangular, box-profile...
bodyshell was supplied from the Berlin plant of pressed steel experts, AmbiBudd. Like the Eifel, the Ford Taunus came with rigid axles, but with the innovation...
90 km/h (56 mph). The two standard all-steel bodies were provided by Ambi-Budd of Berlin. Primus customers in 1932 could choose between a two door “Limousine”...
the body of a Citroën Traction, and across the Rhine bodies produced by AmbiBudd in Berlin for Adler also ended up being sold in relatively small volumes...
predecessor, the Ford Taunus designed in the 1930s, had had its body built by AmbiBudd, an independent specialist pressed steel body builder in Berlin until...
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