a new streamlined body was announced in october 1935 with a new name for the 20, hawk. chassis design was by william haynes assisted by alec issigonis. the modern all-steel semi-monocoque style body was designed by thrupp & maberly, london coachbuilders also owned by rootes group. the new body houses the spare wheel in the tail. its new lines "are planned to flow smoothly from the radiator". . . "to the trunk at the rear with the streamlined well-valanced wings merging harmoniously into the whole". as before the sloping single-piece windscreen may be opened to give better vision in fog.