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1936 Plymouth De Luxe Touring Sedan [P-2] 
Ep. 1.02+Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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![1936 Plymouth De Luxe Touring Sedan [P-2]](i001790352.jpg)
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◊ 2023-05-23 14:52 |
For the blue on right - the A70 Hampshire on left has own page. Seen several times thru'series, but very few clear shots - these are best:![[Image: 31-54bluerightb.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/31-54bluerightb.jpg) ![[Image: 31-54bluerightcep536-40.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/31-54bluerightcep536-40.jpg) |
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◊ 2023-05-23 16:55 |
'36 Plymouth |
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◊ 2023-05-23 23:30 |
RHD - CDN build for Aus?? Or local build?? |
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◊ 2023-05-26 13:31 |
Seems Aus were building Plymouths from about 1935 - maybe even a couple of years early. I've got a confusing history book of car building in Aus which says at one point that Holden Motor Bodies were building Plymouths at the Woodville plant despite the GM merger in 1931, along with bodies for several other non-GM makes. However it says somewhere else that TJ Richards were building Chrysler group bodies (Dodge and De Soto also mentioned). TJ Richards apparently made Australia's first all-steel car body in 1936 on a Chrysler - in other words with a steel roof instead of fabric - as no-one else had a press large enough to stamp out a roof panel in a single piece. The HMB reference reports a comment by William Hartnett - the GM director who was sent to Aus to sort out the GM-Holden merger around this time and later created Holden as a stand-alone brand - says "... when I saw the extraordinary capacity of the Woodville plant, I could not believe how good they were. They were making all-steel Plymouth bodies ahead of the Americans." Maybe both refs are true - Plymouths at Woodville and TJ Richards doing other Chrysler stuff - but that's 2 claims that Aus created all-steel bodies before US factories. |
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