The story
The 1930s were the firm's greatest years. Bodies were built to order on other chassis but mostly these were the years of the Rolls-Royce and Bentley saloons, coupés de ville and sedancas de ville.
Near the end of the decade Jack Barclay tempted A. F. McNeil to James Young Limited and his place was taken by'John Blatchley (1913–2008), still in his early twenties. Blatchley was a graduate of the Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering and Regent Street Polytechnic recruited by McNeil. After the war he was appointed chief stylist of Rolls-Royce and Bentley and he retired from there in 1969. McNeil remained John Blatchley's teacher mentor and friend for many years.
In 1940 a straight-eight Daimler limousine was produced at Lacland Place, the curves replaced by razor edges. The Daimler had been given square-cornered windows, a flat waistline and a raked but square-edged tail. It was greeted as "very very handsome, in a totally new idiom", but there was a war on.
From Wikipedia’s article on J Gurney Nutting & Co, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3