26-09-2020, 10:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-09-2020, 10:26 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
(26-09-2020, 08:29 AM)Mike Costigan Wrote: The AG was introduced in January 1931 and ran through to the end of 1932; short chassis, steel body, slightly longer scuttle and more upright petrol tank than the AF (in other words the tourer version of the RM saloon). The AG retained the 1930-style wings through to around September 1931, and then (like the RM) changed to the 1932-style. This demonstrates the problem with using the body code as the model identifier; often there are clear visual changes (like the change in wing style) which are not reflected in the body code, so we really should supplement some codes with, say, early and late prefixes...Thanks, Mike, that's very clear. So, the early AG becomes an AG/E and late one an AG/L. Or, for the hyper-anoraks, early is AG/E-AsFWs30 and late AG/L-AsFWs32. Now, let's code those models previously-thought-to-be-an-Opal-but-are-not and the two-seaters which really are...
...thanks for the picture of the '31; lovely. Now, if we are confused about a few simple changes, imagine Mini aficionados fifty years from now trying to sort out what's what with multi-million option combinations offered on today's models.