Bus UK YEATES of Loughborough (coachworks)

YEATES

Bus and Coachbodybuilders

Leicestershire

England – UK

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1938-bristol-with-yeates-body-after-two-lives-before

1947-dennis-lancet-iii-with-a-yeates-c35f-body-eay58

1948-crossley-sd42-9-with-a-yeates-c39f-body-eja52

1948-cud373-a-daimler-cvd6-with-wilkes-meade-c33f-body-ctl652-a-dennis-lancet-iii-with-a-yeates-c35f-body

1948-dennis-j3-lancet-iii-with-a-yeates-c35f-body-ent709

1950-ptw451-was-a-dennis-j3-lancet-with-a-yeates-c35f-body

1951-hnt886-was-a-dennis-l6-falcon-with-a-yeates-c33f-body

1951-smu599-seen-at-wembley-stadium-was-a-yeates-c41c-bodied-aec-regal-iv

1952-mvo115-was-a-yeates-c41c-bodied-leyland-psu1-15-royal-tiger

1952-yeates-c37f-bodied-crossley-sd42-9a-ldf815

1953-a-e-c-9822s-regal-iv-pah800-with-a-yeates-riviera-c41c-body

1953-gtl419-was-a-bedford-sb-with-a-yeates-c35f-body

1953-pwj98-was-a-bedford-sb-with-a-yeates-riviera-c35f-body-pwj98

1954-bedford-sbg-with-a-yeates-riviera-c36f-body

1954-lewingtons-yeates-riviera-bedford-sb-tjh-538-c

1954-leyland-psu1-16-royal-tiger-with-a-yeates-riviera-c41c-body-knr240

1954-ste-556-is-a-yeates-riviera-bodied-bedford-sbg

1955-hcl661-aec-mu3rv-yeates-c41c

1956-aec-reliance-mu3rv-yeates-riviera-c41c-rnm300

1956-aec-reliance-yeates-c41c

1956-bedford-sbg-with-a-yeates-riviera-c41f-body

1956-bedford-sbg-with-yeates-c41c-bodywork

1956-tdm-397-bedford-sb3-yeates-europa-c41f

1957-centre-950dnu-a-bedford-sb-with-yeates-europa-body

1957-nky161-a-bedford-sb3-with-yeates-c41f-body

1957 bedford-yeates-europa-uk

1957-yeates-europa-c41f-bodied-bedford-sbg-cjp630

1958-aec-reliance-mu3rv-yeates-c41f-kbv251

1958-aec-reliance-mu3rv-yeates-c41f-vbt-191

1958-aec-reliance-mu3rv-yeates-c41f-vbt-893

1958-heb141-was-a-yeates-europa-c41f-bodied-bedford-sb3

1958-yeates-europa-c41f-bodied-a-e-c-mu3rv-reliance-xvf800

1959-jep861-bedford-sb1-with-yeates-europa-c41f-bodywork

1960-1400ua-bedford-sb1-with-a-yeates-europa-c41f-body

1960-7652vw-a-commer-avenger-iv-with-yeates-c41f-body

1960-albion-vt17l-victor-with-yeates-europa-c41f-body-4600nx

1960-bedford-sb1-with-a-yeates-c41f-body

1960-bedford-sb1-with-yeates-europa-c41f-bodywork

1960-bedford-sb3-yeates-c41f-rct-2

1960-leyland-yeates-rct3

1960-yeates-europa-c41f-bodied-bedford-sb1

1960-yeates-fiesta-c41f-bodywork-graced-565aew-a-bedford-sb

1960-leyland-yeates-rct3

1961-27tte-a-bedford-sb-with-yeates-fiesta-continental-c41f-bodywork

1961-5025bt-a-commer-avenger-iv-with-yeates-fiesta-continental-c41f-bodywork

1961-8964pt-a-bedford-sb-with-yeates-pegasus-bodywork

1961-9491wy-a-bedford-sb1-with-yeates-pegasus-b44f-bodywork

1961-oip791-an-aec-reliance-2mu3ra-with-a-yeates-fiesta-body

1961-tdo294-a-bedford-sb1-with-yeates-pegasus-dp44f-body

1962-barton-chilwell-949-949mrr-1962-aec-2u3ra-yeates-dp57f

1962-its-45-seat-bodywork-by-yeates-was-the-only-example-of-its-type-i-remember-seeing-the-chassis-was-a-bedford-sb5

1962-premier-2530wy-yeates-bodied-bedford

1962-reliance-942awr-yeates-bodied-bedford-sb1

1962-vtl536-bedford-sb5-with-yeates-fiesta-c41f-bodywork

1962-yeates-pegasus-dp45f-bodied-bedford-sb5

1963-539dwt-a-bedford-sb5-with-yeates-pegasus-dp44f-body

1963-964rvo-was-one-of-four-bedford-val14s-fitted-with-yeates-c50d-bodywork

1963-969rvo-a-bedford-val14-with-yeates-europa-dp56d-bodywork

1963-bedford-sb-with-yeates-pegasus-bodywork-979grm

1963-bedford-val-14-with-yeates-europa-body

1963-bedford-val-14-yeates-barton0002

1963-bedford-val14-yeates-c51f

1963-bedford-val14-yeates-c52f-390-gew

1964-rickards-london-w2-ayv92b-1964-bedford-val14-yeates-c52f-at-hampton-court

7652vw-yeates-europa-eastern-national

aec-reliance-yeates-vbt191

aec-reliance-with-yeates-europa-body-of-cullings-seen-when-new-at-the-brighton-coach-rally-xvf800

bedford-sb-chassied-coach-kan-505-yeates-pegasus-body

bedford-yeates-nky-161

That’s it

BRUSH Coachbuilders Loughborough Leicestershire England UK

Brush Traction

is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, part of Wabtec Corporation, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire,England situated alongside the Midland Main Line.

Part of Brush Traction was Brushmobile Electric Car

Between 1901 and 1905 the Brushmobile electric car was developed using a Vauxhall Motors engine, although only six were built. One of these six featured in the film Carry on Screaming. Nearly 100 buses, plus some lorries were built using French engines until 1907.

In all, about 250 steam locomotives were built in addition to the tram engines. Production finished after the First World War and the company concentrated on transport-related electrical equipment, including tramcars, trolleybuses and battery-operated vehicles.

In World War II Brush Coachworks diversified into aircraft production, building 335 de Havilland Dominies for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm. Wing sections were built for Lancaster bombers and Hampden fuselages were overhauled.

1946 AEC Regal KEH-608 Brush B34F coachwork

The coachworks continued after the war with omnibus bodies mounted on Daimler chassis using Gardner five-cylinder diesel engines and Daimler preselector gearboxes as well as AEC and BMMO Chassis for Midland Red and 100 Leyland Titans for Birmingham City Transport as well as bodies to the design of the British Electric Traction group on Leyland Royal Tigers. In 1952 the coachworks was closed and the goodwill and patents were bought by neighbouring Willowbrook.

more about Brush in total because it’s still exists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_Traction

1913-leyland-s3-30-t-brush-b27f-body

1927-karrier-wl-6-2-brush-h32-28r

1928-karrier’s-wl-6-2-brush-h32-28r

1929-brush-bodied-leyland-td1

1929-leyland-titan-td1-with-brush-o27-24ro-bodywork-uf4813

1930-trent-ch5432-sos-odd-ex-s-rebodied-brush-b26f

1931-midland-red-ha7328-an-sos-im6-brush

1932-brush-bodied-oxford-aec-regent-jo5403

1935-ledgards-famous-brush-bodied-maudsley-marathon-coach-cub1-in-original-form

1935-midland-red-1693-aha578-an-sos-don-new-in-1935-with-a-brush-b36f-body

1935-trent-304-rc2704-a-sos-don-with-brush-b36f-body

1935-trent-344-rc3715-a-sos-don-with-brush-b36f-body

1935-trent-rc2721-is-an-s-o-s-don-with-a-brush-body-rc2721

1936-leyland-cheetah-lz2-with-brush-c31f-body

1936-london-transport-class-e1-trolleybus-554-dly554-554

1936-trent-334-rc3705-an-sos-with-brush-b36f-body.

1937-london-transport-591-dly591-an-e1-class-aec-664t-with-brush-body-591

1938-bristol-k5g-with-brush-l28-26r-body

1938-bristol-k5g-with-brush-l28-26r-bodyjt9353

1938-daimler-cog5-with-weymann-54-seat-highbridge-body-new-to-trent-in-april-1938-rebodied-by-brush-in-february-1948

1938-midland-red-sos-fedd-2225-fha207-from-1938-with-a-brush-h30-26f-body

1939-midland-red-sos-fedd-fha238-with-a-brush-h30-26f-body-fha238

1940-midland-red-sos-son-2390-gha309-with-brush-b38f-body

1940-midland-red-sos-son-2391-gha310-with-brush-b38f-body

1940-midland-red-sos-son-2407-gha326-new-in-1940-with-a-brush-b38f-body

1943-daimler-cwg5-with-a-brush-l27-26r-body

1943-guy-arab-i-with-brush-l27-26r-body

1943-guy-arab-i-with-brush-l27-28r-body

1944-daimler-cw-with-brush-utility-body

1944-daimler-cwa6-with-brush-ul27-26r-body

1945-built-brush-bodied-daimler-cwa6

1945-daimler-cwa6-with-a-brush-h30-26r-body-gyl291

1945-sunbeam-w-with-a-brush-body.

1946-aec-regal-keh-608-brush-b34f1

1946-daimler-cwa6-brush-h30-26r

1946-guy-arab-iii-with-a-brush-b34f-body

1946-guy-arab-with-brush-b35f-body

1947-daimler-cvd6-with-locally-built-brush-bodywork-ach627

1947-sunbeam-w-with-brush-b35c-body

1948-aec-regent-3127-jha28-with-brush-h30-26r-body-bmmo

1948-brush-bodied-daimler-cvd6

1948-brush-h30-26r-bodied-leyland-pd2

1948-daimler-cvd6-with-brush-h56r-body

1948-leyland-pd2-1-with-brush-h30-24r-body

1948-leyland-ps1-gwy77-in-1954-with-a-secondhand-brush-b34f-body

1948-leyland-ps1s-with-brush-b34f-body

1948-leyland-tiger-ps1-with-brush-b34f-body-7905

1948-leyland-tiger-ps1-with-brush-bodywork-9651

1948-leyland-tiger-ps1-with-brush-bodywork.

1948-sunbeam-f4-with-brush-b32c-body

1948-sunbeam-f4-with-brush-h30-26r-body

1949-bmmo-s9-with-brush-body

1949-daimler-cvd6-brush-h30-26r-528

1949-daimler-cvd6s-with-brush-b34f-body

1949-daimler-cvg6-with-brush-h56r-body

1949/1950-derby-76-bch576-and-86-bch886-were-both-daimler-cvd6s-with-brush-h30-26r-bodies

1950-b-u-t-9641t-with-a-distinctive-brush-h38-32r-body-ktv506

1950-brush-b44f-bodied-leyland-psu1-13-royal-tiger-mtc757

1950-brush-h30-26r-bodied-daimler-cvd6-890

1950-dennis-lancet-iii-with-brush-b32f-body

1950-guy-arab-iii-fitted-with-a-brush-b38f-lpt140

1950-sunbeam-f4-with-a-brush-body

1951-brush-b44f-bodied-leyland-psu1-13-royal-tiger

1951-brush-dp40f-bodied-bmmo-s13

1951-brush-h30-26r-bodied-crossley-dd42-8

1951-daimler-cvd6sd-with-brush-b39r-body

1951-foden’s-pvd6-with-brush-h30-26r-body’s

1951-foden-pvd6-with-a-brush-h30-26r-body

1951-leyland-royal-tiger-psu1-13-with-brush-b41r-body

1951-leyland-royal-tiger-with-brush-b44r-body

1952-b-m-m-o-s13-with-a-brush-dp40f-body OHA888

1952-crossley-dd42-8a-with-a-brush-h30-26r

guy-arab-iii-with-a-brush-b34f-body

That’s it about Brush Busbodies

WHITSON Coach and Busbodybuilders Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middlesex England UK

Whitson

were not one of the larger coach or bus bodybuilders …Whitsons of Yiewsley, West Drayton, Middlesex

1947-dennis-lancet-iii-with-whitson-c33f-body

1948-maudslay-marathon-iii-with-a-whitson-fc33f-body-lph429

1949-aec-regal-whitson-observation-coach

1949-austin-k4sl-with-a-whitson-c29f-body-in-1959

1949-austin-k4sl-with-a-whitson-c29f-body

1949-crossley-sd42-whitson-bodied-gdl33

1949-lwe163-was-a-whitson-c33f-bodied-crossley-sd42-7-new-to-sansam-sheffield

1949-whitson-c29f-bodied-austin-cxb

1950-a-e-c-9621a-regal-iii-with-a-whitson-fc33f-body-gbu9

1950-a-e-c-9821e-regal-iv-with-a-whitson-c41c-body-lwt147

1950-austin-k4sl-with-whitson-c29f-body

1950-daimler-217-and-fnv577-a-leyland-tiger-ps2-whitson-bodied-bask-in-the-pouring-rain-on-the-bus-station

1950-jaw-334-foden-bus-salopia-whitson

1950-leyland-ps2-with-whitson-body-fnv557

1950-mrl865-austin-k4sl-whitson-c29f

1950-n969-usaf-foden-whitson-observation-coach

1950-pvsc4-foden-whitson-hustwitt collect-2

1950-leyland-ps2-with-whitson-body-fnv557

1951-aec-regaliv-whitson-r-simpson-observation coach

1952-chiltern-queens-woodcote-npa462-albion-victor-whitson-fc31f-at-woodcote-garage

1952-foden-pvrf6-whitson-c39c-kwu-24

1952-npa462-albion-victor-whitson-fc31f-in-woodcote-garage

1953-marshall-bradford-lwt149-aec-regal-iv-whitson-c41c

1953-foden-pvsc6-ewh-195-whitson-rc35c-observation-coach

1954-aec-regal-iv-whitson

1954-sentinel-slc6-30-with-whitson-c40c-body

1955-commer-t85a-avenger-iii-maw627-with-a-whitson-c41f-body-maw627

1955-kwu24-whitson-c36c-bodied-rear-engined-foden-outside-the-owners-garage-in-wix-essex-with-walsall-registered-ob-ndh663-lurking-inside © MJ Fisher

1955-whitson-bodied-austin-walsall

That’s all

Bus and Coach builders STRACHAN (and BROWN) England UK

STRACHAN

and

BROWN

Strachans, at one time known as Strachan and Brown, was a significant supplier of bus and coach bodies from the ‘Twenties through to the late ‘Sixties. After that they appear to have quit the PSV market but continued to trade as a supplier to the Ministry of Defense. Based for many years in North Acton, London they moved to premises on Hamble Airfield in Hampshire around 1960. The last date I have where any activity is recorded is 1984.

Their products were particularly prominent before WW2 with many London operators using them, while during the War they were a supplier of “Utility” bodywork. Post-War they were particularly associated with Aldershot and District, but seemed to go into a decline in the late ‘Fifties. The ‘Sixties saw a minor resurgence when they bodied a number of rear-engined single decker chassis including the London Transport XMS class, and provided the coachwork on the only five Dodge chassis sold in the UK.

Surprisingly I have been unable to trace more than passing references to this company anywhere on the web, so a group to record its existence seems appropriate.

History

1976 Strachans (Coachbuilders) ceases production.

1920-31-midland-red-a177-oh-1206-tilling-stevens-ts3-strachan-and-brown-b29f

1926-oc1-strachan-brown-of-acton-daimler-cf6-w-l

1927-aec-oc14-strachan-brown-of-acton

1929-oc14-strachan-of-acton-on-berliet

1930-hx-1388-a-e-c-regent-strachans-h2624r

1930-leyland-lt2-with-a-strachan-b32r-body

1932-leyland-ts4-originally-with-harrington-body-rebodied-in-1949-with-this-strachan-c33f-body

1933-gilford-zeus-strachan-h24-24r-079-xm

1936-aec-regent-originally-with-l-p-t-b-h30-26r-rebodied-in-may-1956-with-the-1947-strachan-l27-28r-body-rebodied-by-roe

1939-aec-strachan-double-decker-125-bhj195

1939-aec-strachan-double-decker-129-bhj199

1939-aec-strachan-double-decker-129-bhj199a

1943-bradford-guy-arab-1-fleet-no-467-reg-no-dky-467

1943-guy-arab-had-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1943-strachan-utility-l27-28r-body-so-extensively-rebuilt-by-silcox-by-1956-into-the-condition-shown-that-it-is-no-longer-recognisable-as-of-strachan-origins

1944-bristol-k5g-strachan-ex-hants-dorset-glj971

1944-guy-arab-ii-rebodied-1960-massey-l57r-2005-gyl984-1945-guy-arab-ii-rebodied-1955-strachan-l56r

1944-guy-arab-ii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1945-barton-443-gnn704-was-a-guy-arab-ii-with-a-strachans-l27-28r-body

1945-bristol-k6a-stranchan

1945-guy-arab-ii-rebodied-1954-strachan-l56r-a

1945-guy-arab-ii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-80-wide-body

1945-guy-arab-ii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1945-guy-arab-ii-with-strachan-h56r-body

1945-guy-arab-ii-with-strachan-l27-28rd-utility-body

1945-guy-arab-ii-with-strachan-lowbridge-body

1945-guy-arab-ll-strachan

1947-33-jde426-bristol-l5g-strachan-dp35f

1947-56-was-a-strachan-l27-28r-bodied-albion-cx19-whilst-81-was-the-roe-l27-26rd-rebodied-single-deck-albion-cx39n-chassis

1947-aec-regent-with-strachan-l27-28r-body-a

1947-aec-regent-with-strachan-l27-28r-body

1947-dennis-j3-lancet-with-a-strachan-c32r-body

1947-guy-arab-iii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1947-guy-arab-mklll-with-strachan-body

1947-leyland-ps1-1s-with-strachans-c33f-body

1947-maudslay-marathon-iii-strachans-fc33f-new-with-enterprise-coaches-of-kenton-middlesex

1948-38-jde-431-bristol-l5g-strachans

1948-aec-regal-iii-strachans-b35r-jfm575-crosville

1948-aec-regal-iii-with-strachan-b35r-body-a

1948-aec-regal-iii-with-strachan-b35r-body

1948-aec-regal-iii-strachan-ta5

1948-bristol-l5g-strachan-dp35f

1948-guy-arab-114-nev609-with-a-strachan-l27-26r-body

1948-guy-arab-iii-single-decker-with-strachans-b34f-body

1949-aec-regal-iii-with-strachan-b36f-body

1949-crossley-dd42-3-which-was-fitted-from-new-with-this-strachans-fc33f-body.

1949-daimler-cvd6-with-strachans-bodywork

1949-guy-arab-iii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r

1949-guy-arab-iii-with-strachan-l27-28r-bodywork

1949-guy-arab-iii-with-strachans-l55r-body

1949-strachan-c35f-bodied-guy-arab-iii

1950-a-e-c-9612a-regent-iii-with-a-strachans-l27-28r-body

1950-a-e-c-9621e-regal-iii-with-a-strachan-c33f-body

1950-albion-venturer-cx37s-with-a-strachan-l55r

1950-dennis-j10-lancet-with-strachan-b38r-body

1950-dennis-j10-lancets-with-strachan-b38r-bodies-175-hou901

1950-guy-arab-iii-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1950-guy-arab-iii-with-strachan-c35f-body

1950-guy-arab-iv-with-uncommon-strachans-fl31-26rd-bodywork

1950-leyland-cpo1-comet-with-a-strachan-c37f-body

1950-leyland-tiger-ps2-1-strachan-b34r

1950-strachan-c35f-bodied-guy-arab-iii

1951-crossley-dd42-8-with-a-strachan-h31-28rd-body

1951-dennis-dominant-with-a-strachans-b41c-body

1951-guy-arab-iii-with-a-strachan-b38f-body

1951-guy-arab-iii-with-strachan-b38f-body-a

1951-guy-arab-iii-with-strachan-b38f-body

1951-guy-arab-iii-with-strachan-fl31-26rd-body

1951-leyland-royal-tiger-psu-1-15-strachan-c4k-gvn-952

1953-bedford-strachans-bus-photo-yugoslavia

1953-dennis-lancet-j10c-with-strachan-c38f-body

1953-strachan-h31-28rd-bodied-a-e-c-9613s-regent-iii

1954-aec-mu3rv-reliances-with-strachan-everest-c41c-bodies-a

1954-aec-mu3rv-strachan-c41c-at-aldershot-garage

1954-aec-mu3rv-strachan-c41c-in-hampton-court-station-goods-yard.

1954-aec-reliance-mu3rv-with-a-strachan-c41c-body-a

1954-aec-reliance-mu3rv-with-a-strachan-c41c-body

1954-aec-reliance-mu3rv-with-strachan-everest-c41c-bodywork

1954-dennis-falcon-lou65-with-strachan-bodywork

1954-dennis-p5-falcons-with-strachan-b30f-bodies

1954-leyland-psuc1-2-tiger-cubs-with-strachans-everest-c41c-bodies

1954-leyland-psuc1-2-with-strachans-c41c-body

1954-leyland-psuc1-2t-tiger-cub-with-strachan-everest-c41c-body

1954-strachan-bodied-aec-reliance

1954-strachan-bodied-aec-reliant

1954-strachan-everest-c41c-bodied-aec-reliance

1954-trojan-dt-strachans-c15f

1955-aec-mu3rv-reliances-with-strachan-everest-c41c-bodies

1955-aec-reliance-strachan-c41c

1955-dennis-lancet-ufs-with-strachan-dp41f-bodies

1955-guy-arab-iv-with-a-strachan-l27-28r-body

1955-guy-arab-iv-with-strachans-l28-28r-body

1955-oc1-strachans-successors-ltd-of-acton-on-aec-reliance-for-fales-coaches-of-bath

1955-strachan-everest-c41c-bodywork-on-its-aec-reliance-chassis

1955-valliant-xhn574-aec-reliance-strachans-c41c

1956-dennis-falcon-strachan-b30f-in-aldershot-garage-yard

1956-dennis-falcon-with-strachan-b30f-body

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That’s it, it’s enough

J GURNEY NUTTING & Co Limited Bus, Coach, and Limo builders London England UK

J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited

Gurney Nutting Ltd Coachbuilders Plaque

Bentley Speed Six 1930
Weymann fixed head coupé

Daimler Double-Six 1932
close-coupled 4-door sports saloon
for Anna Neagle

J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited was an English firm of bespoke coachbuilders specialising in sporting bodies founded in 1918 as a new enterprise by a Croydon firm of builders and joiners of the same name. The senior partner was Mr John (Jack) Gurney Nutting (1871–1946).

Nutting had done well from wartime government building contracts and with his partner from that business, a man named Cresswell, they set up operations in the old Marlborough Carriage Works in Oval Road, Croydon.

The first Gurney Nutting designs made their appearance at the London Motor Show in October 1920. In 1921 they displayed their ‘all weather’ body, the roof folded in the usual way but the great beauty of the arrangement was the side windows – they simply lowered into the doors.

After the Croydon premises were destroyed by fire during Easter 1923 the business was moved nearer their customers to the upmarket address of Elystan Street, off King’s Road Chelsea, London SW3.

Chelsea

Malcolm Campbell’s 1931
Blue Bird

1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Gurney Nutting Sedanca DHC green

Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental 1933

coupé de ville

Here, in what had been an artists’ colony, they established their remarkable reputation for creating sumptuous cars with panache, with apparently naturally balanced proportions and which were beautifully executed.
1924 brought two events that lifted the firm into prominence. The purchase of a licence to employ the Weymann technique 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 Cunard, joined the firm as chief designer. McNeil’s designs would give the firm the greatest and most successful of its years. The Weymann construction forced a square-rigged style but McNeil’s designs had a carefully calculated relationship in their proportions which seemed instinctively right.

Royal patronage

Duesenberg J 1935

speedster

In June 1926 a 21 hp Lanchester chassis fitted with a Weymann body was delivered to the future King George VI. A few months later his younger brother ordered a Weymann body on a Bentley chassis. The stand at the 1926 motor show had just Weymann designs, a 6 ¹⁄₂-litre Bentley in black above white and a beautiful 37 hp Hispano-Suiza in black above primrose.

1948 BristolL6 Gurney Notting Bodywork

1948 SeddonMK4 Gurney Notting Body

1950 Gurney Nutting coach body on a Maudslay Marathon III chassis

1951 Dennis Lancet III with an imposing Gurney Nutting FC37F body

1952 Bedford OB had a (Duple Vista)involved in a serious accident was then fitted with a Gurney Nutting C29F body

1952 Dennis L6 Falcon with Gurney Nutting B30F bodywork

AEC Regal III Gurney Nutting

Gurney Nutting C33F bodied Leyland Tiger PS1-1

Gurney Nutting C37C bodied AEC Regal IV

The car which built their reputation for the customers who really mattered was built in 1928 for the style-setter of the time. In January 1928 the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, later still Duke of Windsor, commissioned a Weymann body on a 4 ¹⁄₂-litre Bentley which was to have a high waistline with shallow windows allowing passengers a little more privacy. The “Prince of Wales” body style became a best-seller. At the beginning of 1931 Nuttings received a Royal Warrant appointing the firm Motor Body Builders to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

The end of Weymann bodies

A 1929 show car, a Bentley Speed Six 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 traditionally coachbuilt bodies. Metal panels replaced fabric on some Weymann bodies but the time of Weymann flexible coachwork was over by 1932.

Full of confidence, on September 4, 1930, Nuttings moved, less than a mile, to badly needed, more spacious, premises in Lacland Place SW10. A few weeks later they showed at Olympia a metal panelled Weymann Bentley Sportsman’s coupé beside another Bentley of traditional construction for the first time exhibiting Nutting’s trademark, a deep chrome-plated beading strip running from the grille to above the rear mudguards and emphasising the sweeping new lines of the car.

J Gurney Nutting built the body for Malcolm Campbell’s 1931 Blue Bird world speed record car.

The height of fashion

The 1930s were the firm’s greatest years. Bodies were built to order on other chassis but mostly these were the years of the Rolls Royce and Bentley saloons, coupés de ville and sedancas de ville. McNeil’s proportions and elegant, sweeping curves remained faultless.

Near the end of the decade Jack Barclay tempted A F McNeil to James Young Limited and his place was taken by John Blatchley (1913–2008), still in his early twenties. Blatchley was a graduate of The College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering in Chelsea and The Regent Street Polytechnic recruited by McNeil. After the war he was appointed chief stylist of Rolls Royce and Bentley and he retired from there in 1969. A F McNeil remained John Blatchley’s teacher mentor and friend for many years.

In 1940 an interesting straight-eight Daimler limousine emerged from Lacland Place, the curves replaced by razor edges. The Daimler had been given square-cornered windows, a flat waistline and a raked but square-edged tail. It was greeted as “very very handsome, in a totally new idiom” but there was a war on.

Rolls-Royce
20/25 1935
limousine
Rolls-Royce
Phantom III 1936
Rolls-Royce
Phantom III 1936
sedanca de ville
Bentley
4¼-litre1937
coupé de ville
Bentley
4¼-litre1938
coupé de ville

The End of Twenty Years of Brilliance

Bentley Mark VI teardrop coupé de ville

With the outbreak of World War II all coachbuilding work was suspended. During the war Gurney Nutting built boats, from lifeboats to patrol boats. In 1945 the business was renamed Gurney Nutting Ltd, styling themselves as “coachbuilders and engineers” and became part of the Jack Barclay group which had acquired James Young Limited in 1937. John Gurney Nutting, who remained a director, was in ill-health and died 10 February 1946 aged 75. The works moved to Lombard Road, Morden Road, Merton, SW19, with some work done at the James Young premises in Bromley. However, the demand for bespoke one-off bodies for cars died away in the post-war years and their last Motor Show stand was in 1948, when they showed two cars built on the Bentley Mark VI chassis. However, they also built full-size bus and coach bodies and were still carrying out production of these in late 1952, closing sometime after.

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