The day Italy entered the war, Ricardo Burzi was internned on the Isle of Man due to being an 'Italian resident alien' and only released after Leonard Lord pulled some strings and personally vouched for his character.

In one day, Burzi altered the slope of the 'B' and formed a stylized 'A' attaching a skeletal wing to the trailing edge and wrapped it in foil.

In 1949 a limousine model was produced on a stretched 11 ft chassis, Twelve and a half inches had been added to the wheelbase as well as a sliding glass partition behind the driver an foldaway occasional seating.

Anders Clausager, an archivist at BL Heritage Ltd, discovered that no more than 12 Sheerlines and 32 Princesses, mainly prototype and pre-production cars, were fitted with the 3,460cc engine before the increase to 3,993cc at the end of 1947.

The Austin Sheerline had Smith's "Red Jackall" hydraulic jacking system installed on its chassis behind each wheel.

this[12][13] The consensus is that in the Last of the Summer Wine episode The Loxley Lozenge, the chassis of an Austin Sheerline was used as a prop for the titular (fictional) vehicle.

A unique 4-door convertible was built on a 1949 Austin Sheerline rolling chassis by Belgian Coachbuilders Vesters & Neirinck in Brussels.

Originally ordered by Desire Gillet of the motorcycle manufacturer 'Gillet-Herstal', it resembles the work of the French Coachbuilders Saoutchik.

This particular car had some interesting features being fitted with Vanden Plas' sportier triple carburettor's as opposed to the standard single Stromberg unit, rear compartment shelves that held 'His and Hers' glass fragrance bottles, etc.