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New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure

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New Light Car Cover Box Saloon -for your viewing pleasure
Tony Griffiths Offline
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06-02-2025, 09:22 PM
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


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Ivor Hawkins Offline
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07-02-2025, 10:19 AM
Lovely job! I’ve seen that by colour highlight around the window frames, was that artistic license such as the missing windscreen wiper?
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07-02-2025, 10:47 AM
Looks good Tony but I think it's a doctored RN.
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Tony Griffiths Offline
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07-02-2025, 11:23 AM (This post was last modified: 07-02-2025, 11:38 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
(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:


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08-02-2025, 08:46 PM
Ah yes, the ‘34 RP gets a wiper!
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