I was away when this subject was being discussed. Being an architect, I am
supposed to be into this subject. I was never really that much on esthetics,
however I can speak the language if there are no good architects around.
I was always nuts about those boxy old engines. I liked them because nobody
tried to make them anything they weren't. The rule I was taught about good
design was that it had to be honest. Most architects disdain "applicque' ".
That rules out some of the things they were doing with shrouds in the 30's and
40's. (That's not all that was wrong with most of the shrouding, especially
Aeolus.) I also disliked what they did to the overhang at the back of the cab
on the later versions of the O5.
The Burlington was mostly ok on esthetics, as far as I was concerned. The
shovel-nose slant on the E5, and the phony grills, weren't really excusable
from
a design standpoint, but they succeeded more or less as trade-marks. The big
headlights (or mars lights, whatever they were) on those little shovel-nose
Zephyrs were awful!
--my 2 cents worth, Dale Reeves
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