Coachbuilders

When the 'F' type was made it was normal for car manufacturers to farm out bodywork production to specialist coachbuilders such as Carbodies - who built most of the MG bodies at the time.Cecil Kimber created the first MGsby fitting sportier bodywork to Morris cars. Many other marques started out in the same way, such as Jaguar who grew from Bill Lyons' Swallow company building sidecars for motorcycles, and a version of the Wolseley Hornet Special. Their S.S.1 coupé might have been a serious challenger to the 'F' type Salonette when shown at the Olympia motor show. Unlike the 'F' type (and later SS100 'Jaguar'), it was a commercial flop. Basically a Swallow-built body on a Standard chassis - and ironically exhibited next to their far better looking version of the Wolseley! It appears that Swallow did not build bodywork on any 'F' type chassis, but several other specialist coachbuilders certainly did. (see Other coachwork)