Solved: Wendax 998 - Morris Cowley MCV by Kohlruss

[Wendax]

It looks like an early SUV.

For one point, please respond and identify car and coachbuilder.

[Wendax]

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[Bill Murray]

Looks like the earliest version of a Morris Oxford, the MO of the 1948-1954 period.
A prolific estate car builder of the era was Crayford.  Can this be close??

[Wendax]

Morris is correct, the rest is not.

[D-type]

Morris Cowley chassis?  Body by Abbott?

[Wendax]

Yes, Morris Cowley chassis. To distinguish it from other Cowleys it is usually characterized by a three-letter abbreviation. I need that one for the easy part, the harder one will be the coachbuilder which is not Abbott.

[D-type]

Would that be a Morris Cowley MCV?

Body by Martin Walter?

[richard cuyler]

Once upon a time a Morris Cowley and a 1946 Ford V8 met in a quiet, dark corner of a big parking area. They fell in love and got married and after a while this was their offspring. Mom's cute-ish face and dad's ungainly feet and backside were what immediately caught the eye, but sadly beauty was not a word which could ever be applied to the progeny.

[Wendax]

Would that be a Morris Cowley MCV?

Yes

Body by Martin Walter?

No

[Wendax]

Once upon a time a Morris Cowley and a 1946 Ford V8 met in a quiet, dark corner of a big parking area. They fell in love and got married and after a while this was their offspring. Mom's cute-ish face and dad's ungainly feet and backside were what immediately caught the eye, but sadly beauty was not a word which could ever be applied to the progeny.

[Wendax]

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[nicanary]

Was the coachbuilder in one of the Commonwealth countries, say Canada ?

[Wendax]

Not a Commonwealth coachbuilder

[pnegyesi]

British coachbuilder?

[Wendax]

No

[pnegyesi]

European coachbuilder?

[Wendax]

Yes

[pnegyesi]

From one of the Benelux countries?

[Wendax]

No

[pnegyesi]

Spanish?

[Wendax]

No

[pnegyesi]

Swiss?

[Wendax]

No

[pnegyesi]

German?

[Wendax]

No