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Base car is easy but who built this "woodie" estate?
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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 03:07:24 PM »
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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 03:48:37 PM »
The base car is a Standard 10 (I think)

So is the body builder Abbott?
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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 04:05:21 PM »
The base car is a Standard 10 (I think)

So is the body builder Abbott?
It is a Standard Ten but the bodybuilder is not Abbott - less known...

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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 04:58:30 PM »
Built by Whitacres of Stoke-on-Trent

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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 02:16:11 AM »
Built by Whitacres of Stoke-on-Trent
That's correct although it should be Whiteacres.
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Re: MJW #843
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 05:27:05 AM »
Sorry, the "e" is stayed in my finger...    ::)

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Re: Solved - MJW #843 - Standard Ten Estate conversion by Whiteacres
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2012, 05:44:51 AM »
Are you sure that the base car is a Standard Ten?

Unless I'm mistaken, those sliding windows, and the slot between the doors for trafficators only appeared on early Standard Eights, I think just for the 1953 and 54 production years.

As far as I know, all Tens had wind-up windows with quarterlights. Just on the basis of the doors, this one looks more like an Eight than a Ten.

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Re: Solved - MJW #843 - Standard Ten Estate conversion by Whiteacres
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2012, 09:37:23 AM »
Are you sure that the base car is a Standard Ten?

Unless I'm mistaken, those sliding windows, and the slot between the doors for trafficators only appeared on early Standard Eights, I think just for the 1953 and 54 production years.

As far as I know, all Tens had wind-up windows with quarterlights. Just on the basis of the doors, this one looks more like an Eight than a Ten.
If I remember there was a discussion on that very point where I found the photo and I thought the outcome was that it was a Ten.
However I take your point Tom and will alter it to an Eight (Ten?).
Thanks for pointing it out.