The Nash Metropolitans, made by the same company were hoisted into and out of cargo ships and many were damaged by the hooks / slings used on the wheel openings ~ my Met club used to have a long retired dock worker in New York who told us about many needing spot paint / dent repair .
What a great photo. Working in a close-knit factory, making near hand-built sports cars that are a manageable size, has great appeal to me. Love all the workers wearing classic ‘poor boys’ hats.
PS. I like all the little interface tweaks happening at the CC site lately. The red hover colour for links, is a cool (and different) choice.
Imagine the craftsmen employed to make those crates.
There are likely folks around today whose families were supported, and they went to university, based on the fact that their dads made wooden crates in which cars were shipped overseas.
I am a proud member of a UAW family, as well as a former member myself. I can tell you that many people worked on the assembly line to provide a better future for their families. That job was a stepping stone to middle class achievement and dreams for the worker’s kids.
There’s something endearing, to me, about a car that’s small enough to be shipped in a crate. I feel the same about the Willys (Jeep) kits they used to drop from planes during WW2.
Interesting to see – fit the windscreen and them take it off for shipping?
The MGA was built at Abingdon, but based on the presence of the Morris Minor line in the background, it looks they were brought over to Cowley (15 miles or so) for export packing.
This is a great picture ! .
The Nash Metropolitans, made by the same company were hoisted into and out of cargo ships and many were damaged by the hooks / slings used on the wheel openings ~ my Met club used to have a long retired dock worker in New York who told us about many needing spot paint / dent repair .
-Nate
Cool pic – I want the mint green one.
I did not know that they crated them like this. Seems a bit labor-intensive. But then that was cheap back then.
The green one in the stack could be my brother’s.
What a great photo. Working in a close-knit factory, making near hand-built sports cars that are a manageable size, has great appeal to me. Love all the workers wearing classic ‘poor boys’ hats.
PS. I like all the little interface tweaks happening at the CC site lately. The red hover colour for links, is a cool (and different) choice.
Imagine the craftsmen employed to make those crates.
There are likely folks around today whose families were supported, and they went to university, based on the fact that their dads made wooden crates in which cars were shipped overseas.
I am a proud member of a UAW family, as well as a former member myself. I can tell you that many people worked on the assembly line to provide a better future for their families. That job was a stepping stone to middle class achievement and dreams for the worker’s kids.
Great picture! And the photographer even managed to find a Fixed-Head Coupe in there.
I wonder if those stacks were stable? Could have been exciting in an earthquake!
pre-containerization.
I owned a 57 MGA back in 1968-69. It had definitive 1600 tag on the rear deck.
I cannot tell which these are, even from the taillamp configuration.
Can anyone tell what year this was taken?
There’s something endearing, to me, about a car that’s small enough to be shipped in a crate. I feel the same about the Willys (Jeep) kits they used to drop from planes during WW2.
Interesting to see – fit the windscreen and them take it off for shipping?
The MGA was built at Abingdon, but based on the presence of the Morris Minor line in the background, it looks they were brought over to Cowley (15 miles or so) for export packing.