A High Comfort Nash. (UPDATES: Status comes standard...)

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The owner of this 1922 Nash is seeking advise on this special edition car. The hi roof 7 seater limousine - in the UK it would be known as a High Hat Saloon - is built to be accessible for very long or high-hatted people, who like some comfort. Not only in upholstery but also in the way kept itself to the road. The car has as an extra 4 gas filled shock absorbers. Or was this addition just needed for the extra weight of the car? (photo by M. van Uden) . Do we have a hi-hat Nash expert around? [email protected]
UPDATE I by a friend: "This Nash is certainly a luxury car, a special order model. During the late teens and early 1920s, several American automobile manufacturers produced high headroom models. Wealthy persons of both sexes wore large hats. Male formal wear required a high hat, especially in Great Britian. Getting in and out of a car became an issue. High headroom cars denoted social status. Nash is long forgotten, but at one time it was a very respected brand. As late as the 1930s, FDR (Frank D. Roosevelt) campaigned in a Nash."
UPDATE II by Kit Foster: "That "top hat" Nash is unusual but hardly special order. It looks like an "ordinary" Model 694 7-passenger sedan, right out of the catalog. I believe these were made by Seaman Body Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nash's "captive" body company. The photo is "borrowed" from the _American Motors Family Album_, published by the successor firm to Nash Motors in 1969. The 7-passenger sedan was the most expensive Nash and probably limited production, but certainly in the catalog. The shock absorbers are quite ordinary, too. They are Westinghouse air shock absorbers, a popular accessory on large cars like this."
Update III by Kim Koffman: “I believe that the car may be an earlier model, possibly a 1920 or 1921 Nash. The external door hinges seem inconsistent to the 1922 Nash. You can never be sure about early automobiles. The manufacturers would mix up engines and bodies on a whim. They just wanted to sell cars! I imagine that Nash would have no problem dumping a 1920 or 1921 model on England and call it a 1922 model. After all, who would know the difference?”

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