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The Princess is a badge engineered variant of the Austin A99 Westminster, manufactured by BMC from 1959 to 1968 and marketed under the Vanden Plas marque. The model was launched in October 1959 under the name Princess 3-litre . [ 1 ]
The cars were also marketed under the Princess and Vanden Plas marque names. The Princess name was also used as follows: From October 1959, the name Princess was used on a deluxe version of BMC's full-sized executive cars badged as an Austin Westminster, Vanden Plas Princess and Wolseley 6/99-6/110
Alvis Speed 20 coachwork by Vanden Plas 1933. Vanden Plas is the name of coachbuilders who produced bodies for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. Latterly the name became a top-end luxury model designation for cars from subsidiaries of British Leyland and the Rover Group, being last used in 2009 to denote the top-luxury version of the Jaguar XJ (X350).
Vanden Plas Princess 1100; Vanden Plas Princess 1275; Vanden Plas Princess 1300 This page was last edited on 6 August 2022, at 18:06 (UTC). Text ...
This was effectively a new marque created by British Leyland, [3] although the "Princess" name had previously been used for the Austin Princess limousine from 1947 to 1956, [4] and the Vanden Plas Princess. The Princess is often referred to, incorrectly, as the Austin Princess. Although this name was not used in the UK market, it was used in ...
The Austin Ambassador is a large family car that was introduced by the Austin Rover Group subsidiary of British Leyland in March 1982. The vehicle was a heavily updated version of the Princess, a saloon car that had lacked a hatchback, the car that "the Princess should have been right from the word go" according to one company manager.
Austin produced two chassis for the Austin Sheerline and the Austin Princess. [ 10 ] Initially only a saloon version on a 9-foot-11¼-inch (3 metre) wheelbase chassis was made, but this was joined by a limousine version in late 1949 [ 11 ] on a stretched 11 ft (3.3 metre) chassis available for use by coachbuilders for conversion to an ambulance ...
The two Vanden Plas Princess Limousines were discontinued, as was the Rolls-Royce Phantom IV Landaulet. Both manufacturers were allowed to deliver a new model to the Royal Mews—Rolls-Royce delivered a Phantom VI with standard limousine body, and Daimler a DS420 Limousine with the facelift introduced the same year. [ 31 ]