Vanden Plas Princess 1100 and 1300

The Vanden Plas Princess 1100 was the most luxurious badge engineered version of the BMC ADO16 small saloon. It was shown at the London Motor Show in October 1963 to gauge public reaction and entered production in spring 1964 as the top of the range, with a walnut veneer dashboard and door cappings, picnic tables behind the front seats, Connolly leather upholstery, Wilton carpets and a West of England cloth headlining. A 1275 cc engine option brought the Princess 1275 in 1967, replaced after only a few months by the Princess 1300 in the autumn of that year, and in North America it was briefly sold as the MG Princess, of which 154 cars were sold. The last British built ADO16 to leave the factory, on 19 June 1974, was a Vanden Plas Princess 1300.