26-08-2022, 03:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-08-2022, 07:32 AM by Tony Press.)
(25-08-2022, 10:55 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: ...and, of course, a body in steel. Were all ordinary Sevens bodied in Australia in steel?
Chummy bodies from the UK Scuttle back were steel.
I believe Holden's made panels for a few other body builders making it difficult to assign a builder.
Bill Sheehan has added a few details :
To hopefully help, my research showed that the Oz steel doors and tubs only first appeared in late 1925 and early 1926 (mixed) and my restoration work seemed to confirm this.
I restored 4 or 5 bodies of that short period that had not only the steel body over aluminium scuttle but had local, ,central-hinged bonnets (3 instead of 2), As the 1925 Motor Show in England showed the curved scuttle-tops and lower windscreen frame, one would expect that was to be standard, but not so. Right up to April 1926 there was a mixture of flat-top and curved-top scuttles and I would suggest that most of the earlier style were unloaded on the ignorant Colonials !
In 1926 Holdens built some all-steel Chummys to Longbridge specs, but it would be totally wrong to say that most Australian Seven bodies were built by them, as many seem to assume these days. Hope I have helped not confused?
Bill Sheehan