 With its limousine configuration and open luggage platform beside the driver, it was in every other respect the same style as all previous London taxis.It was the last new design to be launched at the historic Ward End, Birmingham, plant which had been Wolseley's home since 1919.It was powered by an 1802 cc petrol inline-four engine with a dry sump, based on an industrial version of an engine used in pre-war Morris and MG cars.