Second picture shows MkII Ruby. Third picture shows RN type on right, MkI Ruby on left. I know little about Nippys, but the picture shows a type I have not seen previously so very likely it is correct for the car. Generally when upholstery got scruffy back in the fifties and sixties, better were available cheaply from scrapyards, and if the design was slightly different it was of no concern.

Location: just north of Cambridge

Ian,

from a 1933 65.

ah - interesting. The standard Nippy/65 fare is a protector plate (a Chris Gould reproduction below on a Nippy) and then leather bag with inflator cushion. What is the liklihood that these Ruby style bases could have been options rather than easy 1950s replacements? I'm thinking that it might have been with the later Nippy, but unlikely with the 65?

Ian,

AG Tourer as spotted on eBay.

Quite different to preceding and following models.

Here is a seat base currently on ebay that is exactly the same as the ones I've just removed from an unoriginal Nippy seat.

Dimensions from bottom; 17" front to back, width 13.25" at front, 14.75" at back... and listed as being from a Box saloon.

Questions:
Is it possible that these could have been fitted at the very beginning of 65 build as the inflatable seats came in?

What are the earliest cars that inflatable bladders are fitted to?

What overlays the wood, between that and the cover?

In the later steel bucket (which follows a similar line to these), does the padding change?