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Fine if I am having a one off special built but there is no particular reason for every mudguard, front and rear, to be hand fitted. There is no reason why the width, left and right, front and rear, should differ on every car. There is no reason why the gap under the windscreen between the bottom of the windscreen and the top of the scuttle should be a variable.

The chassis is brought in from outside mainly pre-drilled and ready for assembly and,one would hope, accurately jigged. The mudguards, cowls, and inner mudguards, are all made outside and within the variations of three different mudguard widths there is no reason why they could not be pre-cut and pre-drilled for assembly. The major hand built component is the body tub. If the angle, height, and general form of the firewall and the top of the scuttle was accurately built to conform to a jig or pattern (this is the major challenge) everything else would fall into place. The bonnets could even be standardised. A further challenge could be getting the door openings jigged and equal so that every door could be the same.

I'm not able to estimate how much time this would save on each car but I would guess more than a day. Costs would be reduced by standardisation and production increased without additional specialised staff.

But then what would I know, I've never worked for a coach builder, so my thoughts probably have no validity.