The Austin Seven is a racing car! Yet, from what we have posted so far, that seems unlikely. We have already seen, however, that one hundred years ago, this simple, affordable ‘Baby Austin’ kick-started the development of cars from manufacturers like Jaguar and BMW. So, perhaps we shouldn’t be too

This year is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Austin Seven and this post continues with the theme of cars in the Cotswold Motoring Museum collection that have links to the Austin Seven: it brings us to the Mini or in this case, the 1972 Mini Clubman

No, (again), that is not a typo in the title to this post; it is yet another example of the formative role that, 100 years ago, the Austin Seven played in the formation of several motor manufacturing brands that today have achieved global status. We have already seen examples of

Hello, Brum here again – I just wanted to pop up between all these super Austin Seven posts to give you a warning. I was sent this picture, taken in Bournemouth a few days ago. I have evidence (see my ‘Bookface page’ – I think that’s what it is called)

We have mentioned in previous posts that the Austin Seven design was licensed to enable manufacture and sale outside of the UK. Examples exist from Australia, Germany, France, Japan and the USA. The Austin Seven Bantam in the museum collection was produced in 1934 by the American Austin Car Company.

Previous posts have looked at the story of the Austin Seven and the variants that evolved from that basic 1922 design. This post goes back to the very early days of the Austin Seven and the Austin Seven Chummy, a model that started life in the early 1920s. As a

No, that is not a typo in the title to this post. As we will see, there is a strong connection between these two car makers. 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Austin Seven and this post continues the story of the car and the variants

This year, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Austin Seven and this post continues the story of the car and the variants that evolved from the basic 1922 design. As we saw previously, by 1921 the Austin factory at Longbridge was in receivership. To try to

This year, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of the remarkable Austin Seven. Why it was remarkable and how widely it influenced the world of 20th century motoring is illustrated by the recent banners that have appeared in the museum. These hover over eight cars in the collection

Anyone visiting the museum during the last 3 years will undoubtedly have met and heard the blacksmith and the wheelwright chatting about “… these new -fangled motor cars …. “. Well, if you have visited recently, you will know that they have been joined in the blacksmith’s shop by three