Hemphill Brothers Coach Company

Hemphill Brothers Coach Company is a motor coach sales and operations company that provides coach sales, leasing, maintenance, and custom conversion services. Established in 1980, it is a family-owned company located near Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The company provides coach services to an extensive list of celebrities, such as Cher, Tom Hanks, Pope Benedict XVI,Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez. The company provided high-security motor coaches to the Obama administration for the 2012 presidential election campaign.

The company is owned by brothers Joel W. Hemphill, Jr. and Trent Hemphill. They started the company in October, 1980, with the assistance of their father, Joel W. Hemphill, Sr., who had retired from the coach leasing business. The company operates a coach maintenance and conversion facility, and it maintains a fleet of over 70 motor coaches for lease. The company deals in used coaches and new custom conversions, and maintains a separate website for its sales operation. On its website, the company claims an extensive list of celebrity clients, including Cher, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith, George Strait, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Pope Benedict XVI.

The company operates a 28,000 square-foot conversion and maintenance facility located outside of Nashville. It features a 6-bay maintenance shop and a 6-bay conversion shop, and is used to provide services for the Hemphill lease fleet as well as for external customers. The operation also maintains a parts department that provides mechanical and conversion coach parts. As part of its customizing operation, the facility maintains woodfinishing and upholstery shops. The conversion operation provides a full range of customizing services to client specifications. For new custom conversions, the operation uses bare coaches from Prevost Car, a manufacturer of touring coach shells for specialty conversions which is located in Quebec, Canada. The operation is a Prevost-authorized maintenance facility.

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