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The Austin Seven Clubs' Association Details of the various Austin 7 member clubs throughout the UK and the rest of the world. Also the Austin 7 Archives and Register of surviving cars. The Pre-War Austin 7 Club The largest club purely for the Austin Seven. A7 Components Spare parts for all models of Austin 7.
With the help of the Seven, Austin weathered the worst of the depression and remained profitable through the 1930s, producing a wider range of cars which was steadily updated by the introduction of all-steel bodies, Girling brakes, and synchromesh gearboxes. However, all the engines retained the same side-valve configuration. Deputy chairman ...
1964 Austin Cooper S at the 2004 Watkins Glen SVRA 1966 Morris Mini-Traveller (Mark I) Issigonis' friend John Cooper , owner of the Cooper Car Company and Formula One Manufacturers Champion in 1959 and 1960, saw the potential of the little car, and after some experimentation and testing, the two men collaborated to create a nimble, economical ...
The Austin marque started with the Austin Motor Company, and survived a merger with the Nuffield Organization to form the British Motor Corporation, incorporation into the British Leyland Motor Corporation, nationalisation as British Leyland (BL) forming part of its volume car division Austin Morris later Austin Rover, and later privatisation as part of the Rover Group and was finally phased ...
The Austin 7 hp was a small British motor car designed by Austin and built by Swift from 1909 to 1911. It was introduced to the public at the November 1909 Motor Show at London's Olympia . The resulting 7 hp car was sold under both Austin and Swift marques; a total of 1,030 were produced, 162 of which were Austin.
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The last Morris of all was a van variant of the Austin Metro, before the Morris brand was finally completely abandoned in 1987. After much restructuring of BL in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the former Morris plant at Cowley and its sister site the former Pressed Steel plant were turned over to the production of Austin and Rover-badged vehicles.
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