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Originally Posted by Synchro909
I'm not sure what wood they used but it WILL have been a local variety from an Australian native tree, possibly what we call ash. To us, the woods you guys use are "exotic", just like ours is to you. No maple, no oak or any of the other timbers you have here.
Just as a point of useless trivia, there is no such thing as a deciduous native Australian tree. They are all evergreens.
Isn't it amazing what you can learn on a forum like this!!!!
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Not right, Australia does have native deciduous trees. The Red Cedar, the White Cedar, The Tasmanian Beech, just to name a few. Most, obviously not the Beech, are in the tropics and don't drop leaves in Autumn, but during the wet season. And the most recognised deciduous tree by most Australians is the Boab tree.
The wood used in Australian bodies was Mountain Ash, which is a type of Eucalyptus. The wood was used for main body side stringers, cross pieces between the stringers except the rear and seat risers front and rear. The panel between the front and rear doors has a beefier mount bracket compared to the US phaeton bodies. The phaetons have the side curtain box under the front seat, and is accessed by lifting the front seat base, and sliding the curtains between the seat base support ribs.
Holden never made a lot of bodies for Ford, if any at all, everything I've read and heard says that they didn't. Ford made most of their own bodies, with some more exotic styles made by companies like Propert of Sydney, who made fabric bodied Fordors, and Brownlie and Keats of Launceston who made a body they called a Tudor-Coupe.