The Lightweight is a stunning piece of work. A real piece of history, beautifully engineered and hand rivetted body. I do though wonder what 2018 would make of it if it was built today?
I believe that the rubber suspension of the Lightweight Special was contributed or developed by Alex Moulton - who in more recent years used the same technology in his Moulton bicycles.
Moulton rubber based suspension was used also in all Mini models and Austin Morris 1100/1300 models. Called Hydrolastic in this last range. It carried over in some form also to the first Metro and to the MGF which used Metro sub-frames front and rear to save development cost/time.