05-04-2019, 05:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2019, 05:26 PM by Mike Costigan.)
How about this as a theory:
P & PA: original design with long scuttle - same body, revised initials to match other production bodies.
PB: 27½" bonnet, 6" scuttle
PC: 25½" bonnet, 8" scuttle
PF: all fabric version proposed to compete with the £100 Morris Minor - may or may not have entered production
PL: all steel version mid 1932
The PF initials would make some sense cf: the RF saloon
The PL perhaps less so, but by mid 1932 the PD would already be under consideration, so they plucked a letter far enough ahead to not confuse the sequence?
Edit: Sorry, I've just re-read that index card. So the PL is an all-fabric version dating from October 1930, so a variant on the 6" scuttle, and the PF is a fabric-covered metal version from Jan 1931 which will have the 8" scuttle. Given that Austin had all but given up on fabric bodies by the beginning of 1931, neither version seems likely to have been produced in any significant numbers, given that the metal version was also in production at the same time.
P & PA: original design with long scuttle - same body, revised initials to match other production bodies.
PB: 27½" bonnet, 6" scuttle
PC: 25½" bonnet, 8" scuttle
PF: all fabric version proposed to compete with the £100 Morris Minor - may or may not have entered production
PL: all steel version mid 1932
The PF initials would make some sense cf: the RF saloon
The PL perhaps less so, but by mid 1932 the PD would already be under consideration, so they plucked a letter far enough ahead to not confuse the sequence?
Edit: Sorry, I've just re-read that index card. So the PL is an all-fabric version dating from October 1930, so a variant on the 6" scuttle, and the PF is a fabric-covered metal version from Jan 1931 which will have the 8" scuttle. Given that Austin had all but given up on fabric bodies by the beginning of 1931, neither version seems likely to have been produced in any significant numbers, given that the metal version was also in production at the same time.