Introduced at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1956, the A95 Westminster was a development of the A90 of same name that had been in production for the preceding two years.

The A90 Westminster had been one of the first new models produced by the nascent British Motor Corporation, created by the merger of Austin and Morris, and bore a strong family resemblance to the smaller A50 Cambridge.

Engines, gearboxes and running gear were shared with the equivalent Morris models.

Bodies, though, were not shared, the unitary construction shell of the A90 Westminster being unique to that model.

Its power unit was the 2.6-litre overhead-valve C-Series six, which drove via a four-speed column change gearbox with optional Borg-Warner overdrive.

Suspension was independent at the front and by live axle at the rear.

As the A90 had been in production for only two years, the successor A95 represented an evolution rather than an entirely new model.

The most obvious of the changes was the restyled body, ...