Quote Originally Posted by Sandaro View Post
Thanks for clearing that up for me guys. What a strange way to put a car together. I wonder what the economic advantage was in that?

I always knew my car was a sandman, but just felt self conscious of what I thought was a dodgy tag that would detract from the car when finished. But obviously not, that puts me at ease on that issue.

Steve
GMH always did it. All Mosman Park built cars were Elizabeth bodies. GMH had a body assembly plant and a vehicle assembly plant at most sites, the body plant exported bodies to the assembly plant. It was a short shipping stream if they were at the same site, otherwise in the case of the Sydney assembly plant using an Elizabeth body it is a longer shipping stream. I also think vans were such a low volume thing and were harder to put together due to the dodgy old HD-HR roof on them, it made sense to limited where the bodies were built.