Andy, you're right of course. From the pictures I've found the original S2 used the bodyshell as a gearcover.
No idea how the height of the Centro gearbox compares with the S2, but it is certainly wider due to the B4.1 rather than B4 internals. This I reckon would make the gearbox too wide to use just the shell to cover the gears.
But as I mentioned, having seen a few other brands of car suffer with spur gear damage on a particularly sandy track we will stick with the separate gear cover.
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