1940 Southampton, Dagenham and Slough production

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

. Herb Ronson states that to supplement production and this would presumably have been by the M. of S., contracts were entered into with the London Transport Passenger Transport Board Chiswick Works, west London, where buses were built and repaired, and also LEP Transport for the use of their depôt at Corney Road, Chiswick. Mr. Ronson thought that 8-cwt. D.N.D.-pattern trucks were assembled at Chiswick Works, which came under his supervision as did LEP’s operations: LEP assembled initially at least passenger cars [probably Chevrolets] and Harley-Davidson motorcycles

There is little in the book LONDON TRANSPORT AT WAR about the assembly work. And there is nothing at all in Canadian documents about assembly in 1940 by Sunbeam-Talbot Ltd in Barlby Road in west London. These were probaboly Ministry of Supply contracts to help out, whilst Slough ramped up?