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Sportsman's coupé, used a specially polished fabric material to look as if it were an old-fashioned coachbuilt body. The economic crisis hit. Noting how the older
Weymann bodies showed their age the customers, those still able to buy, began to choose glossy cellulose-finished more rounded and
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which was to have a high waistline with shallow windows allowing passengers increased privacy. The "Prince of Wales" body style became a best-seller. At the beginning of 1931 Nuttings received a
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of body construction gave a new silence and lightness to the cars of their customers who selected it and, more important, Scotsman A. F. McNeil (1891–1965), 'Mac', who had been with
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