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Lewis Bandt
Australian car designer
Lewis Thornet Bandt (26 February – 18 March )[1][2] was an Australian car designer, most famous for designing and building the first ute (coupé utility) cars in the s.
Early life
Bandt was born the eldest of five children in the South Australian town of Moonta. The family moved to Adelaide after World War I, and in he began a fitting and turning apprenticeship with Duncan & Fraser Ltd who specialised in modifying Model T Fords.[2]
He moved to Victoria in and worked for the Melbourne Motor Body & Assembling Company. In he moved to the Ford factory in Geelong as the subsidiary's first designer.[2]
Ute design
The design of the ute was a result of a letter from an unnamed Victorian farmer's wife asking for "a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays".[1] In response, Bandt developed the ute and the model called a "coupe utility" at Biography books for 4th graders!