162 Ford Zephyr Saloon (1956-60)

Bruce and others, If you collect car leaflets of the 50's and 60's, you may have one of around 1955 - 56 showing this peculiar house in the background. The leaflet was from Ford and probably for the Anglia. I did have this leaflet and I would be very pleased to get a scan of it as I lost mine. I know this house very well for having stayed there many times between 1956 and 1970 when the first owner sold it to move to Auckland NZ. I could tell you the interesting story of this house which has been build to high way code measures of the time. Is there a web site or forum for car leaflets ? Thank you for your help. Jacques.

Jacques I only have a few Anglia advertisements on file, and these are shown below. None however have the house you have depicted and only one, (the last advertisement) related to your part of the world.. Bruce

Dave K and Al K Post #14 has been cut during the transfer process. Adrian from memory prepared a very detailed Post on the 162 Ford Zephyr and it is a terrible shame that all his hard work has disappeared. Is there any way that it can be recovered in the same way that many of my Posts were recovered last year? This is what Adrian wrote to save going back to #14: Greetings everybody, as you would gather from my ID, this car is one of my favourites so I hope you will not find the following information boring! The Ford Consul and Zephyr Six were introduced by Ford GB at the October 1950 London Motor Show, although production did not start until 1951 - 1st January with the Consul and 12th February for the Zephyr Six. Ford called them the 'Five Star Cars'. They were revolutionary for their time - unitary (monocoque) body construction, the innovative independent (MacPherson strut) front suspension, 'oversquare' engines which on the 4-cylinder Consul (designation EOTA) was 1508cc and on the 6-cylinder Zephyr (EOTTA) was 2262cc. Both models were only available in a range of single colours. A two-door convertible was displayed at the 1951 Motor Show, but it's production did not commence until early 1953. However on 21st October 1953, Ford introduced the new 'luxury' Zephyr Zodiac: two-tone paintwork in a choice of three colour schemes (the upper body was always 'Dorchester Grey', the lower half either 'Canterbury Green', 'Winchester Blue' or 'Bristol Fawn leather upholstery; twin spot and foglamps; wing mirrors; an electric clock; a higher-compression cylinder head from 6.9:1 to 7.5:1 for more power; and other little touches including gold-plated name badges for the bonnet and boot lid. In 1955 my uncle purchased a brand-new Consul for And that was all that was transferred from the old website. Hoping it can be recovered as quite frankly this Topic will be lost without it! Kind regards Bruce H. (150) 20170414/1079:0123

Some more pictures of the Ford Zephyr, as I have a nice replacement available now for my earlier duotone blue example. As a spin-off this always produces new pictures: 1. The medium blue / pale blue example. 2. Here with its regular green/cream counterpart. 3. Comparison with my previous (later, with 'engraved' tyres) example unveals differences in paint detailing at the rear. 4. The general 1957 Meccano catalogue shows the model in a prominent place. 5. A Dutch advertisement of two contemporaries. 6. The previous Dinky Toys no. 162, since 1939. 7. Which was renumbered 691 in 1954, perfectly in time to make place for the Ford Zephyr of 1956. 8. At least two Dinky Toys have been represented on post office stamps, this Ford Zephyr and the no. 34a Royal Air Mail Service Car (a replaced contribution from Jacques).

The complementing lime green lower half body version, the G/26 green finish, which replaced the darker G/20 green version in the course of 1957, as documented in the Amended Colour Schemes List of 5 February 1957. The colour spot on the box is unchanged, cream/green, identical to the colour spot for the darker predecessor. Far below the whole family (Ford Zephyr and Vauxhall Cresta) of final British duo-tone saloons which both were issued without windows and never got them in the end. Kind regards, Jan