Graber

Cars with bodies by Graber

The car itself is credited to its chassis manufacturer. Open a car to see its individual chassis.

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  Bentley

  R-Type Continental – non-Mulliner coachwork (Franay, Graber, Farina, Park Ward)

  Production not yet verified

  Coachbuilt

Key facts

Founded

1927 (surviving records from 1926)^2,1 Independently researched

Founder

Hermann Graber² Independently researched

Headquarters

Wichtrach, near Bern, Switzerland² Independently researched

Status

1970¹ Independently researched

History

Hermann Graber's workshop in Wichtrach near Bern bodied cars by hand from the late 1920s; its first car, a Fiat 509 two-seater cabriolet, was presented in 1927. Earlier work included Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Duesenberg, Packard and Panhard & Levassor, and later it made bespoke bodies for Alvis for almost twenty years and for Bentley Mark VI, R-Type and S-Type chassis. The last Graber Alvis body was on chassis 27475 in 1968. Special-body production ended when Hermann Graber died in 1970.

Milestones

1. 1927
   First car, a Fiat 509 cabriolet, presented.¹
2. 1970
   Hermann Graber died; special-body production ended.¹

Sources

Each number links to the exact facts it supports.

1. 1
   Carrosserie Hermann Graber Level D The SAHB

   • first car presented in 1927
   • died in 1970; production ended
   • first car, a Fiat 509 cabriolet, presented in 1927
   • production of special-bodied cars at Wichtrach ended in 1970
   • Carrosserie Hermann Graber (company history)

   Accessed 2026-11-13
2. 2
   The story of 27474 Level B Alvis Archive

   • surviving records "date back to 1926"
   • workshop of Herman Graber, Carossier, in Wichtrach
   • Wichtrach, near Bern, Switzerland
   • The story of 27474 (company history)

   Accessed 2026-11-13