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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Arteesi was a partnership between Ted Taylor and Keith Roach (and maybe a third member with the initial C to make RTC?); Ted was an early (late 1960s) member of the Van Register with a van of his own construction, very likely the one in the leaflet. I doubt if they had anything to do with Pat Ford - from the link it sounds like Mr Ford had not worked on a Seven before, and the van mentioned was probably a one-off.
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Mike - Patrick Ford certainly had other interesting Sevens (I think a 24 Chummy was mentioned) and the Woodie posted on the Forum was once in his ownership though clearly made much earlier than his ownership. Clearly nothing as organised as Arteesi - but it would be interesting to see what standard the 'film' van was made to.
I wonder if Arteesi comes up in the Register on 'Body'. It probably should if they were around for 8 years.
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The 'C' of RTC was (is) Barry Clarke. The RTC special bodies were conceived, designed and built by this trio as a means of making attractive use of the many redundant lwb chassis to be found at the time for a reasonable cost.
There was a Patrick Ford, resident in the South Wales area, a very skilled engineer and Austin Seven owner (Opal?), who I think died perhaps 10 years ago (?). He may or may not be the man in question. He was well known and active in the SWA7 club, and some of the longer standing members of that club will remember him.