These door trim panels are correct for early VA saloons and do not have a pocket in the rear door, but the full sunburst pattern. They should combine with the earlier type front seats with the wider backs and a pocket in the seat back.
The panels above belong to a later type VA saloon with round top back rests. Mind the pocket in the backdoor panel (VA 1022)
This is how an early seat with back pocket looks. (VA0253) still like this on VA 0564,& 0577 (=body 5576) and even VA 0706. According to Parts List, seats changed at body 5711, which is possibly around VA 0712
The front door panels on the earliest saloons had a round hole around the inside door handle (also wide seat back) possibly only 0254-0258 would be interesting to check 0291 (David Wood). Also sunburst pattern in the corner different from the later cars (see above)
Roof lining and beading The roof lining and beading form an important part of every SVW saloon car. The rooflining on my VA saloon was full of holes and partly eaten by little animals so that it needed complete refurbishment. To my regret the beading suffered the same fate and not enough of it could be safed to be re used. The rubber inlay of the beading becomes very brittle and useless but can easily be replaced by new material. It's a different case with the woven outside material.
I tried very hard everywhere to lay my hands on some of the original beading but all sources had dried up. I did find a textile museum which still had the right machinery to reproduce what I wanted to have. Only problem was that the people to operate the machine had died long ago and had not left any notes. Quite disappointed I left the museum leaving a bit of the original beading behind. To my surprise I received a telephone call two months later that an original weaving machine operator had turned up and that they already had produced a sample piece ! If I could come and have a look. Although there is a small difference it looks very authentic and once fitted to a saloon you have to be an expert to spot the difference.
Next problem was that the material to produce the beading has to be special made and coloured as well. They only wanted to do it for a run of at least 120 meter. Luckily Peter Ratcliffe of SVW Spares jumped in at that moment to place an order for the full length. I believe he usually has some in stock now.