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Published on 01 November 2020

Mark has really opened up a can of worms - I can understand the confusion about what types of bodies were called. My father, who started driving in the 1920s, like most of his generation, used to refer to some cars as single seaters which was an open car with a bench seat in the front and possibly a dickey seat behind. A tourer was open with front and back seats, as my first car, a 1929 Essex shows here on its rego certificate. In the US it could be a Touring, or even a Phaeton. Like many Australians my age, I never heard it referred to as a Model T or Model A; my dad's generation called them T-Model or A-Model Fords. I think the American collector influence came in during the 1970s and younger people have adopted the US way. I still call them T-Models......