Fabric-covered cars: motor engineering and fashion

Sykas, Philip A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-9768 (2019) Fabric-covered cars: motor engineering and fashion. Aspects of Motoring History, 15. pp. 3-15. ISSN 2631-5610

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Abstract

Fabric coverings for cars were a short-lived phenomenon of the 1920s to early 1930s. Designed to reduce weight, give flexibility, and supress noise, fashion also played a role. The inventor Leopold Ward trialled printed textile coverings coated with transparent varnish in 1924, and changeable silk was even seen offering an irridescent sheen. But the desire for curvaceous vehicle shapes and improvements in nitrocellulose paints meant that by 1929, fabric exteriors rapidly declined in popularity and production.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	14 Oct 2019 11:29
Publisher:	Society of Automotive Historians in Britain
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities
Subject terms:	car body, nitrocellulose-coated cotton, Leopold Ward, aka Holzapfel (1888-1978), William Foxton (1861-1945), Charles Terres Weymann (1889-1976), E.C. Gordon England (1891-1976)
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/624068
ISSN	2631-5610

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