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I tried investigating the Jones (Willesden/Park Royal?) connexion
with the bodies of the 406 and got nowhere at all. I did query this
with the late LJKS and he, at the time (must have been the early
1980s), did not have the necessary concrete evidence - anyone now
know better?

There was a lot of strange deals on pressing panels and
assembling/building bodies in the 1960s/70s. Whilst researching the
background to the financing of the former Rootes Linwood factory with
the Pressed Steel Linwood one, I came across requests that prior to
Volvo's agreement to have the P1800 panels made at the the Linwood
factories and then assembled by Jensen, it was Bristol Cars which was
their initial first choice. I could not establish whether Bristol was
only going to assemble the P1800 or was contemplating producing the
panels as well.

It is a perilous occupation interviewing the former staff of some of
these firms, for example, I was assured by one of the principals of
an extremely good vehicle painters near the old AFN factory in
Isleworth (Duralac?) that they had painted a number of Bristols
(1950s or 1960s) and that some of these had been bodied/built at AFN.
At the time I presumed that these were specials that had been fitted
with the Bristol engine, but who knows?

George