Ford Australia was the first company to produce a coupé utility as a result of a 1932 letter from the wife of a farmer in Victoria, Australia, asking for "
a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays".
Ford designer Lew Bandt developed a suitable solution, and the first coupé utility model was released in 1934.
Bandt went on to manage Ford's Advanced Design Department, being responsible for the body engineering of the XP, XT, XW, and XA series Ford Falcon utilities.
