A little more snooping around on the Early Datsun web site indicates
that Datsun built Austin Cambridges for a period of time and that
they were nearly identical. Certainly that is where the styling
origins of the 50's and 60's cars began.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/3823/pre.html
MGB owners, take note of the last sentence...'-)
"DATSUN/AUSTIN CAMBRIDGE A50 1956
Looks like every other Austin Cambridge doesn't it ! Look closer and
you'll notice the rear vision mirrors (only the Japanese would put
them up there) and those orange fog lights, look even closer and
you'll see another feature Cambridges don't usually have, Build
Quality ! Nissan built Austins under licence after the second World
War. The Datsun version has a straight copy of the Austin 1498cc
4cyl. engine. After they stopped building Austins Nissan's own cars
started to look like Austins. They took the Austin engine designs and
improved them dramatically. They looked similar but were much more
efficient and more powerful thanks to better balancing and greater
precision in their manufacture. (put a Cedric cylinder head on an MGB
and you'll get an extra 5hp minimum) "
Gerard
At 12:50 PM -0700 8/1/03, PAsgeirsson wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>But there was the "E" type also, as shown in the photo. Was close enough to
>the Brit iron that many parts were interchangeable. Still a lot of them
>around in old Nissan fork lifts. Then came the "A" series that are so
>popular. 5 main crank, etc.
>
>The "E" type was never found in the Morris.
>
>Paul A
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