mercrocker wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:41 pm
Wolseley 15/50.
Surely its a 4/44? From memory.
The 4/44 and 15/50 are, visually, virtually identical. On the 4/44 the side flash is level, that on the 15/50 tapers down as the one in the photo does.
Mechanically they were different generation - 4/44 using an XPEG engine of Nuffield/MG origin before the 15/50 replaced it with a 1489cc BMC engine (as in the MGA, Wolseley 1500, Morris Oxford etc. in various tunes).
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The Magnette is similar but the whole body is a few inches shorter top to bottom. That meant all the doors and wings are different. I think the same goes for the 6/90 and Pathfinder.
Yes, 6/90 and Pathfinder quite different pressings despite appearances! I think, but not sure, that the Riley 2.6 was different again in wing details....Of course the Varitone ZB was very different to the earlier ZBs. No wonder they lost money.....
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What sometimes gets overlooked is the massive pull the big dealership chains had at BMC and to some extent Nuffield before that. Their insistence on unique-to-brand features often wagged the dog, so to speak. I guess they couldn't be ignored with the size of their purchasing power....
If you look at Farinas, for example, there are no completely common wing pressings across any of the UK variants if you account for slightly different bumper profiles, grille cutouts, holes for side trim and so on. There are no common body pressings between the 4 pot and the 6 pot Farinas, yet the cars look identical if not seen together.
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