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Central Manufacturing Company was a body and seat supplier founded by Edward Willard Ansted in Connerswille, Indiana, in 1898, and a coachbuilder for bespoke and serial coachwork from 1903. An early specialty was the rear entrance tonneau body that was used by Cadillac, Packard, and Studebaker. After 1907, wooden coachwork was replaced by metal panels. In 1913, the company did coachwork for 25 automobile manufacturers, 17 of them based in Indiana.

The company was part of the Ansted-Lexington concern until its demise, building bodies for Howard and Lexington cars. It was later taken over by Erret Lobban Cord who integrated Central Manufacturing as one of several factory body manufacturers for Auburn, Cord, and Pac-Age commercial vehicles. There was also custom coachwork for Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg. Central Manufacturing did the coachwork for the Duesenberg Mormon Meteor record car, and the two very similar "SSJ" Duesenberg Speedsters for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper.