1949 Austin FX3 Taxicab

 This is one of the vehicles I photographed on a visit to the Pallot Museum in Jersey in May 2013.

It's an Austin FX3 Taxicab, and judging by the Jersey registration number it's a 1949 model. The FX3 was produced from 1948 to 1958 and the coachwork on the Austin chassis was built by Carbodies of Coventry. It originally had the 2,199cc ohv petrol engine from the Austin 16, but because the petrol engined car proved expensive to run later models were given a diesel engine.