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Old 06-02-2021, 09:22 AM   #1
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How was it the upholstery in the Ford Model A 1930/31 Roadster, leather or vinyl?
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Old 06-02-2021, 09:39 AM   #2
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It depends on whether the car is a standard roadster or a deluxe. The standard roadsters had black cobra grain artificial leather and the deluxe models had Two-tone tan bedouin grain leather for the seats and a similar artificial leather for other trim items and rumble seat.

The artificial leathers were not vinyl fabric yet (PCV coated cloth). They were pyroxylin (nitrocellulose) based coatings over a cloth substrate or rubber based coatings over cloth. Heavier vinyl upholstery fabrics were marketed starting with Naugahyde by Uniroyal in the early 1950s. It was manufactured in Naugatuck, CT. They started manuacturing vinyl products in the 1930s but it wasn't till after the war that the vinyl upholstery fabrics started to come into there own. The trademark was registered in 1936 but the early "naugahyde" was a rubber based product.

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