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Re: RN to RP Why did Austin make the rear body narrower?

Early RPs did have double dip headlights. The change came in '33 but I don't know when.

Location: Cottenham, north of Cambridge

Re: RN to RP Why did Austin make the rear body narrower?

Stuart Joseph will be able to answer that Robert.

Re: RN to RP Why did Austin make the rear body narrower?

Dave Mann
Stuart Joseph will be able to answer that Robert.

Thanks Dave!
Having been working with A7's since 1964 I have met a number of people who worked on the line at Longbridge and the one comment they all made was 'never say that part wasn't fitted to a particular model'.
1933 saw the change over from the RN to the RP and I have always associated the fitting of the Lucas LB130 headlamps with the RP. However as is common with current manufacturers there may well have been 'run out' period when old stocks were used up and I don't doubt that a number of RP's left the factory with Lucas 32/35 headlamps as fitted to the RN.
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Stuart

Location: Staffordshire, the creative county