Create a Drupal content type with no body field

It is possible to hide the body field of a drupal content type by doing the following:-

Administer-> Content Management -> content types
Click “Edit” against the content type for which you want to hide the body

Expand the “submission form settings” section

Remove the Text in the “Body field label” (it tells you to do this in the help text for this field)
Save.

These instructions are relevant to Drupal 6