Great story about the Anglia, Dr John. I learnt many new things. Regarding the reverse rear window etc, I'd like to point everyone to Retroautos February 2017 edition, where I wrote about the Ford's forgotten concept car, the D-528/Beldone. This was where the reverse angle rear pillar was tested.The Beldone was built in 1953-54 to test advanced ideas for air conditioning, seating layouts, door opening configurations , lighting, interior and exterior crash absorption, four door pillar-less hardtop construction, headlight arrangements and a wind-down rear windscreen, which required a reverse angled pillar. . Exterior styling was done by Gil Spear, while John Samsen did the interior. An enduring legacy of the D-528 was its reverse rear pillar styling idea. Variations of this motif appeared on late fifties Mercurys, some 1957-58 GM cars, the 1959 British Ford Anglia and the Consul Classic and the 1964 Plymouth Barracuda. The wind down rear window was a Mercury feature well into the sixties. It was dropped when air conditioning started to become a standard feature. Gil Spear worked as a stylist for GM, Chrysler and then Ford .He joined Ford in 1947 and was involved in ?productionising? the shape of the 1949 Ford. Later he headed up the Advance Design studio, where the D-528/Beldone styling originated. From 1967 he was Chief of Design for Ford UK, where he oversaw the Capri. He retired from Ford in 1974. Spear was also instrumental in bringing the 1957 Ford Skyliner, the one with all metal the retractable roof, to fruition. John Samsen worked on the first Thunderbird while at Ford and then moved to Chrysler in 1957, where he worked on DeSotos . He led the styling of the 1964 Plymouth Barrcuda. His efforts also included the ?67 and ?71 Barracudas. Customiser George Barris owned the Beldone for a while and it appeared in the Jerry Lewis movie "The Patsy". It is now at The Petersen in LA. I've included two pictures. As for the Hillman Minx, the whole "Audax" range (that was the internal code) of Hillman, Singer and Sunbeam sedan, coupe and convertible were styled by the Raymond Lowey studios, and is really a smaller version of the early fifties Studebaker sedans and coupe. That the Beldone, Hillman and the Studebaker look very much alike is most likely because there was a lot of "sharing" of ideas back in the day.