coachbuilder:

(also ‘coach-builder’; plural: ‘coachbuiders‘; pronunciation: the first letter ‘c’ in ‘coach’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

Apart from several other meanings/definitions….

a coach

A ‘coach’ in this context is an enclosed wheeled vehicle which, in olden days, a horse-driven cart, called a ‘stage coach’, and these days, a large enclosed multi-wheeled motor vehicle, e.g. a passenger luxury bus, a railway (train) carriage for passengers, an enclosed vehicle for moving race horses, called ‘horsebox’ coaches, medium-sized vehicles for carrying people’s dead bodies, called ‘hearse’, etc.

a skilled worker (an expert worker or a factory/company) that builds the bodies of motor vehicles and railway carriages, which are called ‘coaches’,

coachbuilders at work

e.g.

Rasool is the best coachbuilder in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, whose expertise is sought after by several local and international coach building companies.

As a result of the global recession, many coach building companies have cut down on their staff and many coachbuilders have lost their jobs and are now finding work in garages where vehicles damaged in road accidents are repaired.

Almost all the large motor vehicles and railway carriages come out of the factories with only the frame (chassis), engine and wheels, and the rest of the body with seats, electric wiring and lighting is built by a coach building factory or company using expert coachbuilders.

the chassis of a truck

For an interesting article on a brief history of motor coachbuilders, please click here, for an attractive advertisement that shows the coachbuilders (factory/company) and the expert coachbuilders (workers), please click here. And for an item of news about horsebox coaches, please click here, and for another item of news about the difficulties coachbuilders (coach building companies) face, please click here.

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