Anglia Estate (United Kingdom, 1959)

During the 1950s, station wagons had undergone a huge shift in popularity in Britain. In 1950 they were commonly a utilitarian vehicle built on an existing saloon car body by a specialist coachbuilder, usually involving little more than an extended roofline and additional windows, with a tailgate fashioned to fit. By the late 1950s, station wagons had moved to become a model within their own right, and were more often being built alongside their saloon companions in-house within the walls of the automotive factories.

This was the case for most car makers, though low volume models tended to remain coachbuilt, particularly those whose construction entailed a full chassis rather than the more modern monocoque shell. A departure from that norm could be observed within both Ford and Vauxhall ranges, where the large family saloons, the Consul/Zephyr/Zodiac and Velox/Cresta, were still farmed out for construction, respectively to Abbotts of Farnham, and Grosvenor, Friary, and ...