George, LJKS mentions this in A Private Car and given his embarrassment over his mistakes in Bristol Cars and Engines I can't imagine he would have mentioned it if is wasn't true. It wasn't conjecture in A Private Car, it was stated as fact - the 406 was made by Jones Brothers in Willesden. With the 407 body production was moved to Park Royal in Acton, where it remained until the 411, which was made at Filton.
As for the Astons. If there were bodies made at Filton in 1959, I would imagine David Brown would want to keep it pretty quiet given he would have been circumventing union action which was preventing them being made at Newport Pagnell. However, demand for the DB4 was very strong from France and the USA so it would have been very tempting, because the DB4 platform chassis was produced at the David Brown Corp works at Huddersfield. Also, although the DB4 is known as a "Newport Pagnell car", apparently "a lot" were made at Feltham.
Apparently Touring made the body tooling and the aluminium body panels were produced on a rubber press made by Dowty Bouton Paul.
One coincidence in all this is the number, 75 - that's how many DB4 GTs were made.
I would really like to see this photo if someone can scan it and send me a copy, or post it on here.
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