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I was reading on another forum that the vent window mechanism and the divider bar on 33 Chevrolets rolled down with the vent window closed. Person said that when the 33 was an eagle it did roll down and later in year master designation , it did not.

Interesting, I had never heard that before...........true or false ??????

mike lynch

This listing is incorrect. No such animal as a Master Eagle. The Eagle was produced for the first three months until the Standard came out. Then the Eagle was dropped and we had two models, the Master and the Standard. The Eagle did not have a fixed divider. The vent window could not be opened unless the window was lowered. When the Master had the convenual window divider this became the pattern for future cars.

RAY, how did it work. Did you do something with the vent handle or was there a lever of some sort that allowed the vent window to roll down? That's a neat thing to have, wonder why they discontinued it ???

I remember a friend had a 34 Chrysler 4 door sedan and the vent windows would roll down if something was done to a latch or handle.

mike lynch

Best way to answer is: The window does have a channel that the vent window fits in. Therefore the main window must be lowered first and then the vent window can operate. After the third ~month~, the change was made where the divider did not move and was stationary so the window and the vent were able to operate independently.

Absolutely correct with the main difference between an Eagle and Master. I always wondered what some of the other differences are since the Roadster does not have vent windows so how do you know if it is an Eagle or Master?

You see a lot of miss information when people describing cars for sale on the internet, especially for cars from the 1930's and earlier. Some of my favorites are a 2 door sedan when they are describing a Coach or a Fordor when they are taking about a Chevrolet 4 door.

I know we've had this discussion before but I still see advertisements for "Mercurys" right. I have a friend who swears that there is a "Mercury". It's Standard, period, right?

....right...

re 1933 mercury............WE HAVE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD A FEW TIMES , nobody can come up with advertising from North America, there is no literature from GM to substantiate the term MERCURY in regard too a 1933 Chevrolet .

BUT, well during the last war of this on here, somebody from Australia sent me a picture of a body builders plate from GM HOLDEN. On that plate is stamped HOLDEN MERCURY, referring to a 1933 Chevrolet STANDARD SERIES.

So in North America we had " STANDARD SERIES 200 CC " , offering 3 vehicle body styles.....2 coupes ; one with and one without a rumble seat, and a 2 door coach.
fisher job # 33-601 coach
fisher job # 33-607 2 passenger coupe
fisher job # 33-628 4 passenger coupe ( rumble seat )
a total of 1047 33 standard series were produced in Canada for domestic sales, total of 9 combination of left and right hand drives were produced for export markets

Model # 254 AUSTRALIAN C K D passenger chassis , 901 exported. These were shipped to HOLDEN Australia where they produced coupes, coaches , a roadster , a touring and maybe a UTE ?

If you wish to see the photo of the HOLDEN builders tag/plate with the words Mercury stamped in, send me an email

mike350@rogers.com

WHATS NOT REAL......:.......SANTA CLAUS, EASTER BUNNY, TOOTH FAIRY , BIG FOOT, LOCH NESS MONSTER , ALIENS IN AREA 51

But the 33 Chevrolet Mercury made in Australia is

mike lynch...............lmao

Very funny and good to know.

As I said earlier, I agree the Master and Eagle are two slightly different variants of the same car with one produced earlier in the production year and the other later, but there is actually some confusing 1933 Chevrolet literature on the GM Heritage Center website.

Click on or cut and paste this link for one of them: https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/do...mation-kits/Chevrolet/1933-Chevrolet.pdf

One the first page it references 1933 Chevrolet Master Eagle, but what I believe they meant and what it should have said it Master and Eagle.

I have seen another piece of 1933 literature on the GM website with the same comment.

The picture of a 1933 Town Sedan is from GM files. The caption below was probably made by a present GM employee that was confused over the naming of 1933 models or wanted to cover the bases and used both names.
The material shown for 1933 in the heratiage Center info, is from the 1933 Egnineering manuals for the Eagle and Standard. This info. was never releaed to the public but was for GM employees in the higher position to inform them of the fesatures of the new models.

The first issue was published Nov. 15 1932 aand has almost no mention of an Eagle model. The Eagle name was like the Confederate in 1932 and Independence in 1931 ETC. and name was changed each year. Chevrolet never used the name in the parts book but rather just two letters such as BA or CA. In the original Engineering Features the new 1933 is just refered to as 1933 pasenger cars.

When the new Standard Engineering info. came out on Feb. 4 th 1933 it refers to the Standard as "put thru the same assembly lines and inspections as the MASTER model". My guess is that they wanted to use Standard and Master each year rather than change the name each year, Master had been used by Buick in the 1920's.

The New Standard series was announced in the March 1933 Service News and as an " addition to the established 1933 Master series". I can find no place where Chevrolet mentioned changing name from Eagle to Master, guess they thought no one noticed. Strange that that did not use Master from the beginning of the model year as they knoew the Standard would be anounced a few mothhs later.

The more you dig into Generous Motors and its inner dealings, you wonder what level of competence or incompetence they were employing .

mike lynch