Only goes to show - one just has to ask on the list, and /someone/ will know
the answer!
Thanks, Eddie.
Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA
eddie@ratdat.com wrote:
> Vanden Plas was a coach builder founded by Guillaume Van den Plas in 1884.
> They had a Brithish offshoot who worked under licence from 1913. From 1923
> Vanden Plas were based in Kingsbury, London and were responsible for lots of
> coach built bodies on cars such as Alvis and Bentley. They were taken over
> by Austin in 1946 and became one of the various marques under the BMC group
> along with Riley, Wolseley, MG, Austin and Morris. They then proceeded to
> make upmarket versions of the BMC cars such as the 1100/1300 (Austin
> America), Princess and Allegro (urgh). They also made limosines thru this
> period too such as the VDP 4Litre-R ( R because of it's Rolls Royce engine)
> and Daimler DS 420. The actually company closed it's doors for the last time
> in 1979 but the name lives on and is simply used to designate top of the
> range models now. Rovers and Jaguars come in VDP versions still.
>
> Eddie
> England
> eddie@ratdat.com
> www.ratdat.com
>
> > What the hell is a "Vanden Plas" anyway???????;-)
> > BZ
> >
> > Wish List:
> > Money and time to fix up the junk that I have! Plus trade up on the
> Jaguar
> > to a newer model XJ8 Vanden Plas (wishful thinking!!)
> > Sid
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