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Earls Court 1962

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Year Show New cars announced for this show Photo
1962 17 October to 27 October 1962
Earls Court, London
47th International Motor Show

Summer trunk roads have a 50 mph speed limit at weekends

A "spectacular" Whit Sunday has 70 miles of traffic jams

It is proposed to fit all new cars with safety belts and require motor-cyclists to wear crash helmets

First 28 miles of M5 opened

One-year car tests to be compulsory

The Paris salon opened in early October in by government decree the Palais des Expositions instead of the Grand Paris where it had been since 1895. For the first time all French manufacturers are given pride of place instead of allocation by size of business and ballot. The British industry claimed this was a foretaste of the Common Market. The intended release of new British cars was delayed until Earls Court. However twin-paired headlights and lowered radiator shells were displayed on Rolls-Royce and Bentley coachwork exhibits

It was expected that by the end of the year BMC alone would have exported 100,000 vehicles to Europe, more than 3 times as many as the Europeans would sell in UK

Attendance: 474,086 and 21,199 more from overseas. It was noted the paid attendance was 103,948 less than last year

Morris 1100 — August 1962
MGB — September 1962
Triumph Spitfire — October 1962
Lotus Elan — October 1962


Van den Plas

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Carrosserie Van den Plas S. A. was a coachbuilder in Brussels and Antwerp Belgium. Its business operated from 1870 until 1949 under the names V.D.P., Van den Plas and Carrrosserie Van den Plas. It also operated in France under the name Willy van den Plas between 1924 and 1934.

Wheelwrights

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Minerva AL 40CV, cabriolet by Van den Plas 1930

The business belonging to Carrosserie Van den Plas began in Brussels in 1870 as V.D.P. wheelwrights. Then the manufacture of axles for horse-drawn vehicles was added and, from 1902, horse-drawn carriages. It was founded by Guillaume van den Plas, a blacksmith, and his three sons, Antoine, Henri and Willy who later set up a branch in Paris. In 1884 they moved from Brussels to Antwerp. With increased business they opened a branch in Brussels again in 1890. By 1900, they worked with De Dion Bouton, Berlier, Germain, Packard. By 1908 Carrosserie Van den Plas had a workforce of 400 men producing 300 special bodies a year and this soon increased to over 750.[1] The Belgian business ceased production in 1934 and its French branch with it.

Coachwork

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V.D.P. Rue Saint-Michel 32, Bruxelles 1000 Van den Plas Carrrosserie Van den Plas

La carrosserie Van den Plas, rue (du Collège) Saint-Michel Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (fancy suburb)

Locations

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Brussels Antwerp France

London

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The coachbuilder's name first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1906 when Métallurgique cars were imported with Carrosserie Van den Plas coachwork. The first Vanden Plas company in England was established by Warwick Wright (now Peugeot dealers) in 1913, building bodies under license from Carrosserie Van den Plas Belgium.

References

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  1. ^ "History". Vanden Plas Owners Club. Retrieved 7 August 2012.