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1936 McLaughlin-Buick Special 'Emergency Ambulance' [40] 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2016-03-26 22:15 |
EMF or EMP both late 1936 |
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◊ 2016-03-27 06:15 |
1936 Buick. Because the Series 40 Special was the biggest seller it is probably one of those. Most likely a Canadian-built McLaughlin. Whether in 1936 it was a McLaughlin-Buick or just a Buick I don't know. Certainly most of the 'big bits' of the car came from Flint, Michigan. -- Last edit: 2016-03-27 06:17:25 |
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◊ 2016-03-27 15:24 |
There was Buick assembly in UK in 1920s and into the 1930s initially by GM and then through Lendrum & Hartman - "imported 'green' cars ex-Oshawa in 1932 for assembly in their Buick Car Works in Willesden, London, which was originally the Bedford Motors assembly plant." - http://forums.aaca.org/topic/159231-buick-built-in-london-uk/?page=1 . Plus we have comments that there was earlier assembly at Hendon (maybe the initial GM phase?). Have been through all our McLaughlin-Buicks and found all sorts of permutations origin/made in/made for. So for consistency all are now origin CDN. All RHD in UK films after 1925 are now made in UK/made for GB, which seems likely to be broadly correct. There are a couple of earlier ones in UK where I've left made in blank and a couple of LHD left open. This should mean we have a solid basis to adjust if/when we get better info/specific detail. |
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◊ 2016-03-27 16:10 |
Link to "www.google.co.uk" |
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◊ 2016-03-27 19:46 |
Buick assembly at General Motors, Hendon more details here including other GM products The Edgware Road factories were built from 1916 onwards to mainly assemble DH aircraft of various types, by AIRCO. Post-war the No.1 Aircraft Salvage Depot which was built in 1917 became General Motors Limited's assembly plant from January 1923 onwards. The Buick's coachbuilt bodywork was almost completely constructed in Hendon on elaborate jigs, as the wooden framework was screwed and glued together, after which the panelling from imported steel panels was welded and attached to the imported chassis parts....General Motors Limited employed about 1,100 operatives, nearly all men, at this London factory in 1929, from which emerged between 13,000 and 15,000 cars and commercials a year. -- Last edit: 2016-03-27 19:46:36 |
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◊ 2016-03-27 19:56 |
Interesting. Looks as if UK assembly can now be pushed further back to cover everything 1923 (which covers our earliest McLaughlins) and might even have gone back to 1920. Noted also that all these sources seem to just call them Buicks - no McLaughlin prefix. I assume there have been detailed discussions before about using McLaughlin, so not trying to make waves - just a passing observation. |
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◊ 2016-03-27 21:58 |
A lot of detail here some summarised as follows but sometime after 1932 complete cars were imported by Lendrum & Hartman. Lendrum & Hartman, founded by Captain F. W. Hartman, RNAS. as London and Home Counties Buick Distributors in 1920 with showrooms at 26, Albermarle Street, Piccadilly, London WI, and works at Old Oak Lane, Willesden junction, NW10. In 1931 Lendrum & Hartman became Buick Concessionaires for Great Britain at the time that General Motors had purchased Vauxhall-Bedford and had ceased to assemble Buicks at Hendon. Lendrum & Hartman then commenced to import Buick cars from the Canadian factory. During 1932 the cars were imported with the bodies as shells and in primer, cars were then completed and prepared for delivery. In the following years the cars arrived finished, needing only to be altered to comply with UK motoring regulations. |
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◊ 2016-03-27 22:31 |
That suggests UK assembly to varying degrees was the norm until about 1934. After which cars arrived fully built. But we also know there were lots of UK-built special bodies - Thrupp & Maberley limos, Maltby convertibles/tourers, Carlton Carriage coupes until WW2 and maybe others. Maybe as well there were some UK commercial bodies (vans) which became all these wartime emergency vehicles as an alternative to the idea that everyone ran round chopping up big saloons - but that's purely my speculation. So does that mean we have to split all our 1934-39 examples into (a) normal US bodystyles which we assume came in from CDN fully built, and (b) everything else without US-recognisable body style, which becomes UK coachbuilt onto presumably imported-from-CDN chassis?? |
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