Heritage Coach Co.

The Heritage Coach Company of Skippack, Pennsylvania - a division of Lankford Buick Pontiac GMC Inc. of Norristown, PA - built a few one-off funeral coaches on Buick and Mercedes-Benz chassis in the late 1980s. In 1990 they purchased the Eureka tooling and trade name from the firm's Canadian receivers. Within the year Mark Lankford and Bob Williams had established a new firm called CCE Inc. to manufacture Eureka-badged funeral coaches and limousines in a new plant in Norwalk, Ohio. In 1993 the firm, now known as Eureka Coach, CCE Inc., purchased another classic funeral coach producer - Miller-Meteor - from Collins Industries of Hutchinson, Kansas. Located at 600 Industrial Parkway in Norwalk, Ohio, CCE Inc. was a union (UAW) shop that employed from 80 to 120 employees and enjoyed a QVM ‘‘Qualified Vehicle Modifier’’ rating from Ford Motor Company as well as Cadillac's ‘‘Master Coach Builder’’ certification. In 1999, CCE Inc. sold the combined Eureka and Miller-Meteor operation and trade-names to the nation's largest producer of funeral vehicles - Accubuilt Inc. and moved to Accubuilt's new (in 1995) 175,000-square-foot facility in Lima, Ohio. Heritage remained a funeral coach and limousine dealer throughout the CCE adventure and still exists as a division of Lankford Buick Pontiac GMC Inc. in Norristown, a Western suburb of Philadelphia that's located adjacent to King of Prussia. www.heritagecoach.com