..add SV 4110 to the register of Lost Cars.
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:34 am
Ian,
You might want to add SV 4110 to the register of Lost Cars.
I bought the car as a wreck in the early 1960s and bits were used when 8159 was restored some ten or so years ago. I see from the genome that that it must have left the works after May 1931 (when your records show 4069 being despatched) and that it was a saloon. Nothing remained of the body when I found it.
The entry in the progress book recording it as a saloon suggests that it was exported fully bodied. The consequences are of this are interesting as Australian tariffs on car body imports had existed since 1907 or 1908 and were regularly added the post first world war years in an effort to protect "the Dominion's "infant industries" as Prime Minister Scullin termed them in 1929 when he doubled the existing tariff. The higher level of duty surely meant that this car would have been a more expensive option than the locally bodied cars. Are any members able to comment on why, and how many, fully bodied Minors were brought here?
Is someone also be able to tell me what the prefix "U" and subscript "A" means on the engine number.
You might want to add SV 4110 to the register of Lost Cars.
I bought the car as a wreck in the early 1960s and bits were used when 8159 was restored some ten or so years ago. I see from the genome that that it must have left the works after May 1931 (when your records show 4069 being despatched) and that it was a saloon. Nothing remained of the body when I found it.
The entry in the progress book recording it as a saloon suggests that it was exported fully bodied. The consequences are of this are interesting as Australian tariffs on car body imports had existed since 1907 or 1908 and were regularly added the post first world war years in an effort to protect "the Dominion's "infant industries" as Prime Minister Scullin termed them in 1929 when he doubled the existing tariff. The higher level of duty surely meant that this car would have been a more expensive option than the locally bodied cars. Are any members able to comment on why, and how many, fully bodied Minors were brought here?
Is someone also be able to tell me what the prefix "U" and subscript "A" means on the engine number.