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New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure - Tony Griffiths - 06-02-2025
24th February, 1933. A restored Light Car Cover. Click the image for a higher resolution copy or, if you like to make a poster of it, download a 77MB copy here: https://www.lathes.co.uk/Austin7/box-24-feb-1933.jpg
RE: New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure - Ivor Hawkins - 07-02-2025
Lovely job! I’ve seen that by colour highlight around the window frames, was that artistic license such as the missing windscreen wiper?
RE: New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure - Dave Mann - 07-02-2025
Looks good Tony but I think it's a doctored RN.
RE: New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure - Tony Griffiths - 07-02-2025
(07-02-2025, 10:19 AM)Ivor Hawkins Wrote: Lovely job! I’ve seen that by colour highlight around the window frames, was that artistic license such as the missing windscreen wiper?
Look carefully, and the wiper is there.....
Yes, almost certainly just artistic messing about. The later, similar advertisement from February 1934 for comparison:
RE: New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure - Ivor Hawkins - 08-02-2025
Ah yes, the ‘34 RP gets a wiper!