Thread: 88 SWB Station Wagons

Thanks for that - from my other research it was delivered to the customer on 7/1/1957 so it sat around somewhere for four months.

Despatched in and out on the 27 Sep 1956 - does that mean it was built in a day??

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

Thanks for that - from my other research it was delivered to the customer on 7/1/1957 so it sat around somewhere for four months.

Despatched in and out on the 27 Sep 1956 - does that mean it was built in a day??

Cheers

Garry

No not quite.

By the way here is a photo I took of the reading room at Gaydon last Friday on my way to Heathrow to come here to see the family.



Its of LR053 trawling through the microfilm of the dispatch books to try and find where your sequence was. Other bloke is Chris Goddard, Arthur's younger son who we were showing all his Dads entry's in the real books which don't come out unless you have a really good reason!!!

Anyhow that date is the date the CKD packs were sent from Solihull. They almost always went as a set of 6, so it looks like yours was assembled in late 56 in Sydney.

Has anyone seen if the production records of PMC exist. This would record all the relevant numbers of the vehicles listed for guarantee purpose.

LR's own production do exist and I will try to get to them but they don't hold the production records for CKD plants

Originally Posted by 260AC

No not quite.

By the way here is a photo I took of the reading room at Gaydon last Friday on my way to Heathrow to come here to see the family.



Its of LR053 trawling through the microfilm of the dispatch books to try and find where your sequence was. Other bloke is Chris Goddard, Arthur's younger son who we were showing all his Dads entry's in the real books which don't come out unless you have a really good reason!!!

Anyhow that date is the date the CKD packs were sent from Solihull. They almost always went as a set of 6, so it looks like yours was assembled in late 56 in Sydney.

Has anyone seen if the production records of PMC exist. This would record all the relevant numbers of the vehicles listed for guarantee purpose.

LR's own production do exist and I will try to get to them but they don't hold the production records for CKD plants

That is really great - sorry I misunderstood you original dates - silly me thought that was in and out through Grenville.

Lotz a Landies - Diana has access to the Grenville documents and that is where I got the delivery date, original registration number and who the car was first sold too.

Yesterday, I sent an email to the family who first owned my car seeking any information they may still have so am hopeful for a response in the next week or so.

I appreciate your efforts - thanks a lot.

Cheers

Garry

I have sent an email to Hunter Wine Services - no response as yet but here is hoping that the family might still have some information.

In doing research on these vehicles I am am beginning to form the opinion without any real evidence that there may have been some differences between Australian and UK vehicles. Books like Taylor basically show Brit vehicles with passing references to vehicles in other countries so restored vehicles tend to be rebuilt using UK references.

So - does any one have pics (colour preferred but not necessary) taken in the 50s and 60s of un restored swb station wagons that they would be prepared to put up.

Thanks

Garry

Seen your post on the series1 swb station wagon from way back , as I am a major fan of both the long wheel base and swb because they are so rare.there is a genuine dark green
swb station wagon in the south of wa in poor condition but the new owner is determined to restore it was he is aware how rare they are and has massive character. This is the only swb sw I've seen in wa.plenty swb sw in NZ where I started my series1 interest/obsession. SAD