"The Original Source"
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Location: Hilton Head SC | Joakim,
I never heard of the Winsor X500. Sorry!
Doc, the clay armatures (bucks) had steel frames, and to move them, car jacks, like used in service garages, picked them up front and rear, and they were pushed by hand or pulled by small tractor-like vehicles.
Some bucks were built with removable roofs so that instrument panels could be modeled inside. The clay bucks had to be solidly supported, so that accurate dimentions could be taken off by measuring scales held on the aluminum "bridges", which could be moved on the rails surrounding the buck. When the new Ford styling building was built in the early '50's, steel and concrete foundations down to bedrock were put in the floors beneath the rail platforms. At Chrysler, the platforms were laid on top of the concrete floors, and were not as solid as those at Ford and GM, but it doesn't look like this was detrimental to the bodies produced.
Here are a couple details I designed:
And Desoto styling studio 1956, no full size clays!
My work station, Plymouth studio...just noticed- I'm still using the Dazor lamp on my drawing table here in South Carolina. And, my old air brush, sable paint brushes, etc. When we left the company, they gave us a box to take what we wanted of our tools, old sketches, etc.
John
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