19-07-2019, 11:06 PM
Perhaps another possibility is that Austin were worried about the effect on cooling of fitting a cowl in front of the radiator - the Seven was the first model to have this - and so they added the bottom deflector to help with cooling, only to find it was not really necessary? (Except on export models?)
One of the radiator support brackets on my Feb 37 Ruby has a suitable hole for the fitting a bottom deflector, as shown above, and one does not - but either or both may have been substituted over the years.
Colin
One of the radiator support brackets on my Feb 37 Ruby has a suitable hole for the fitting a bottom deflector, as shown above, and one does not - but either or both may have been substituted over the years.
Colin