page_title: J Gurney Nutting & Co
section_title: Royal patronage
hierarchical_section_title: J Gurney Nutting & Co / Royal patronage
caption_attribution_description: 1935 Duesenberg J. This photo was taken on June 4, 2010 in Pebble Beach, California, US.
context_page_description: J Gurney Nutting & Co Limited was an English firm of bespoke coachbuilders specialising in sporting bodies founded in 1918 as a new enterprise by a Croydon firm of builders and joiners of the same name. The senior partner was John Gurney Nutting.
  Nutting had done well from wartime government building contracts and with his partner from that business, a man named Cresswell, they set up operations in the old Marlborough Carriage Works in Oval Road, Croydon.
  The first Gurney Nutting designs made their appearance at the London Motor Show in October 1920. In 1921 they displayed their 'all weather' body, the roof folded in the usual way but the side windows simply lowered into the doors.
  After the Croydon premises were destroyed by fire during Easter 1923 the business was moved nearer their customers to the upmarket address of Elystan Street, off King's Road in Chelsea, London.
context_section_description: In June 1926 a 21 hp Lanchester chassis fitted with a Weymann body was delivered to the future King George VI. A few months later his younger brother ordered a Weymann body on a Bentley chassis. The stand at the 1926 motor show had just Weymann designs, a ​6 ¹⁄₂-litre Bentley in black above white and a beautiful 37 hp Hispano-Suiza in black above primrose.
  The car which built their reputation for prominent customers was built in 1928 for the style-setter of the time. In January 1928 the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, later still Duke of Windsor, commissioned a Weymann body on a ​4 ¹⁄₂-litre Bentley which was to have a high waistline with shallow windows allowing passengers increased privacy. The "Prince of Wales" body style became a best-seller. At the beginning of 1931 Nuttings received a Royal Warrant appointing the firm Motor Body Builders to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
caption: Duesenberg Model J 1935
  speedster
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