When producing vehicles today, wetake it for granted that the body shell will be composed of some form of steel. Rewind to the start of the 20th century, however, and it was not just the design, performance and levels of luxury that were in stark contrast to those of the modern vehicle-even the materials used have come a long way. Many of the early vehicle body manufacturers had made their names producing body parts for horse-drawn carriages.The companies transferred the skills they had in woodwork across to this new form of transport.
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