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It would remain this way, so much so, that his competitors would ask themselves how he could stay in business with these prices. One can imagine, what sort of effect this would have on the later manufactured, noble sports cars. Indeed, a really big profit would probably never be realised. One has to give it some thought: Lyons offered an optically clearly improved model, which was only 17% more expensive than the standard, which of course, was much larger. One only has to imagine, what e.g., a Karmann Ghia cost in comparison to the Beetle. No wonder this branch of business was successful, after the 1927 convertible and the 1928 saloon, other cars were also refined, e.g., the Fiat 508, also a mass product, belonging however, rather to the middle class.

There was still a further parallelism. For a company to be really successful, a bulk buyer mostly appears and orders a number of cars all at once, of course under certain conditions, as it was around the turn of the century with the Daimler company in the shape of the Consul Jellinek. In this case it was the biggest dealer in Great Britain, who ordered 500 Austin Swallows in one sweep. By the way, at this point differences between Lyons and Walsley were already beginning to manifest themselves, Walmsley was not really prepared to carry the risk. Indeed, it was to become 'worse'. After moving premises once again, this time to Coventry, the production was continued, allegedly with an additional 1000 (!) workers.

Coventry was known to the older people because of the disastrous German air-raids during the second world war, which led to the reaction of 'blanket-bombing' of almost all the larger cities in north- and central Germany in thecourse of the war years. Coventry, with its population of approx. 300.000 lies in the middle of England and up to shortly before the turn of the century, it was the home of at least 10 British motor-car manufacturers. Jaguar was to become so famous in this context, that later, when one spoke of 'Coventry', the Jaguar works were meant.

In the meantime, not only Austin- and Fiat cars were provided with Swallow-coachwork, but also Morris, Wolseley, Swift and Standard, whereby the latter played an important role in the further development of the company. This second, big step in the development was slowly coming to an end. Lyons wanted to build complete cars. To do this he needed a chassis, The whereby, we must bear in mind, that not only a frame is meant. Basically, what was needed was a finished, ready to drive car, where only the bodywork was missing. At the moment however, the frame was adapted to fit in with the special requirements. 07/13

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