In a message dated 9/7/2008 7:35:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ahwahnee18@gmail.com writes:
To build the car, didn't Standard just 'drop' a completed body onto a
frame that had the radiator, engine, gearbox, etc. already in place?
I'm not saying it's easy or that it's wise, but from photos I've seen
of the S-T assembly line it would seem to be possible.
==AM==
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what they did. Similar with the TR4, where
I believe bodies were painted and trimmed elsewhere (Liverpool?) and then
brought to Coventry to be united with fully equipped chassis.
--Andy Mace
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*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er, Triumph
Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
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