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I’ve owned my first Lagonda (2 litre low chassis tourer) for about 6 months and have enjoyed every minute. It generates a lot of interest and the most common question I am asked is ‘why no driver’s door?’ I have searched on the internet and can’t find a decent answer. I know many other tourers of the era did the same- Bentley, Sunbeam etc. These were high end cars so it can’t have been to reduce costs.
I’ve always been told it was to avoid risk from stepping in or out on the ‘traffic side’. My T2 body has a nice cutaway to let the driver step over from the running board – also a cutout from the front offside of the driver’s seat so that you can avoid putting your big boot on it as you climb over, so they obviously expected people to disregard the wise advice offered!
A consideration would also have been the extra rigidity to the body framing provided by the absence of a door opening.
Laurence
The T7 body has a kerbside passenger door and a roadside rear door so I doubt the omission of a driver’s door was to prevent drivers stepping out into the road. Unless rear passengers were somehow more expendable! As Laurence says, I believe it was for rigidity in the body shell.
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