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Distinctive body styles and modifications available in 1929 - Tony Griffiths - 26-03-2020
From the Light Car and Cycle Car, 1929, a mouth-watering choice of bodies and stages of tune. The images have been scanned at high resolution and cleaned - they have not loaded in order. As ever, click the image for a sharper picture and click again for larger still. Download and send to Instantprint (or similar) for a wall-sized reproduction. If you would like even larger files (around 20 MB each) for the best possible reproduction, here they are
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RE: Distinctive body styles and modifications available in 1929 - Charles Levien - 27-03-2020
I find it interesting to see that all the body styles are on a high chassis which I guess was the standard at that time.
When did a lowered suspension look come in?
RE: Distinctive body styles and modifications available in 1929 - Mike Costigan - 27-03-2020
There was no standard lowered chassis in the 1920s; a very small number of EA Ulsters were supplied in chassis form, some of which will have gone to specialist coachbuilders (I only know of one, with an Arrow body, built by a well-known coachbuilder, but there were probably others), Similarly, a few 65/Nippy/Speedy chassis were supplied to coachbuilders such as Arrow(Comptons), AEW etc.