Peak above screen

[Archivist]

More cataloguing...

Is it only the RK that has a peak above the screen? EG, is this an RK? I'm pretty sure not... So was a peak fitted to other models or, in this case, an 'extra' (of which the car seems to be sporting many..)


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Quite wonderfully, checking the chassis register, PL 3533 still exists, so places this as a 1930 car...

[Howard Wright]

Hugh

Those bumpers are interesting. My RK should have bumpers according to the heritage certificate. I wonder if they were like these and if indeed the ones shown are Austin originals or an add on?

Cheers

Howard

[Archivist]

And we're back...

Doing a little more digging using the remarkable resource that is https://www.archive.a7ca.org/wp-content/...BR_700.pdf one can see that both the standard saloon and fabric saloon of 1930 had a peak. Though, oddly, the car in the photo has a louvred bonnet, whereas the brochure illustrations show plain bonnet sides...

Would anyone care to comment?

Brochure 700d of 1930 shows the same image but by Brochure 700h of the same year, illustrations show the peak to have gone, though still with a plain bonnet side...

Can someone more informed than I confirm the model to be an RL please?

[Mike Costigan]

The RK, RF and B-coupe all had the windscreen peak, although I believe the RK version was shorter than the other two... and early versions of the RF had the peak integral with the roof, rather than the screw-on separate item.

PL 3534 is, indeed, an RL, but that 'peak' looks more like a framed glass sunshade to me - not, as far as I am aware, a Factory option.

[Howard Wright]

Hi All

It looks to have every assessory in the book….trafficators and wing mirror can be added to the peak and bumpers?

Cheers

Howard

[Archivist]

Thank you Mike. If you look in the Brochure I highlighted, the image of the saloons there show a peak. If that is an RL, then we can certainly add that to the list as well. Though, as I say, they seem to disappear in later 1930 Brochures

And Howard, if we are going for it, I think there is a spotlamp/foglamp down on the nearside...

[Peter Naulls]

It looks like an RL to me. The very early RLs had plain bonnet sides, no louvres.

[Robert Leigh]

I remember a friend with an RL in the 1960s. He fitted expanded metal panels in the plain bonnet sides because of poor cooling. Perhaps this one was chnged to the later bonnet for the same reason.

[David Mawby]

I think it could be a Mulliner, it looks like a Mulliner sun visor

[Archivist]

It could be a different model, of course, but the head on view of the Mulliner saloon on Austin Harris' site appears to have quite a different screen arrangement...

https://austinharris.co.uk/photo/austin-...aloon/650/


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