KILE, PAUL D wrote:
> I believe Trevor is mistaken when he refers to Abingdon workers
> selecting different bonnets until they got the proper fit.
Ok, perhaps not true at Abingdon, but move that statement
to the Pressed Steel Company and it returns to sanity.
> The bonnets were marked in crayon with the chassis number, so
> they could be mated up with the right car at the end of the line.
...which sort of backs up the theory that, even at
the time, bonnets were not so uniform that they could
be swapped at will.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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