Kite-flying with the one-off job
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Cite-flying with one-off jobs ised to be common at the :ommercial Motor Show. I loubt whether some ever urned a wheel under power. rhey were just publicity gimnicks. Others had promise ut the makers ran out of ;team or money and did not levelop them.
The Dennis Paravan, deiigned for parcels work in conjunction with Essex Carriers (now part of Atlas Express), was typical of the vehicles that never got beyond the show stand.
Many of the new models of which Commercial Motor artists produced splendidly detailed cut-away perspective drawings were not built when the drawings were made. The maker gave the
artist a box to sit on and a few odds and ends, such as a pair of chassis side-members, some springs, perhaps the engine and, most importantly, the designer's blueprints. A combination of mechanical knowledge, imagination and artistic flair produced beautiful accurate artwork from practically nothing.