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FROM BOND TO BENTLY AND BACK
An automobile engineering graduate, Roger work ed
in Canada before building a career in England. He was
Manager of The
National Motor Museum at Beaulieu for 16 years and then spent a further
8 years
managing Fiennes Restoration, the top pre-war Rolls-Royce &
Bentley specialists. In addition he has worked for Firestone,
Volkswagen, Audi,
Peugeot, Thatcham, Hertz and NG kit cars. His story
is told through his experiences of working in the motor industry, the
people he has met and literally hundreds of vehicles. Notably, Roger
tracked down the 1932 Austin Seven he sold in 1969 and repurchased in
2002. The book can be ordered via the author’s website at www.bondtobentley.uk which
also shows full details of the book. £14.99
+ £4.25 P&P £19.24
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Austin 7 around the Americas
By Guy Butcher & Eunice Kratky
The amazing story of the design, rebuild and driving of a 1936/28 Austin
7 from Baltimore to Alaska to Punta Arenas in 2012/13.
In order to request a copy, please visit
www.bespk.com. Within the UK the
inclusive charge including P&P is £25.
All proceeds from the book
sales are being donated to the Dame Hannah Rogers Trust
www.discoverhannahs.org
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AN AUSTIN ANTHOLOGY
 Jim
Stringer has a new book out in March, currently available on a preorder
“An Austin Anthology” “An entertaining collection of true stories that
feature just a few of the products manufactured by the Austin Motor
Company from 1906 until the outbreak of the Second World War, including
the people who helped to make them, those who drove them, and even those
who flew them…..”
More information on www.veloce.co.uk
RRP £14.99 Inc P&P
NEW ~
An Austin Anthology 2
By James 'Jim' Stringer
Hardback • 21x14.8cm • 112 pages
108 colour and b&w pictures
£ 14.99 POST FREE
Features a fascinating collection of tales documenting the early days of
the Austin empire. Click
here for Amazon link. (£15.99)
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A Comprehensive
History of the Austin Seven Grasshopper
Hardback - SECOND EDITION
.jpg) Following
on from the success of the first edition, the authors continued to
research the cars as well as being contacted by many readers who
contributed much new information. In the light of this extra material it
was decided to review the book, which has resulted in this expanded new
edition. In doing so the opportunity has also been taken to update
significantly, where available, the post-war history of the remaining
cars up to the present day.
Following comments from many people, the book
has now been published in hardback and will be a welcome new addition to
the library shelves of those interested in sporting Sevens.
Available now at £26, post paid, from: Graham
Beckett,
77 All Saints' Lane,
Nettleham, Lincoln. LN2 2NJ;
email:
gabeckett@tiscali.co.uk.
Please make cheques payable
to: Pre War Austin Seven Club Limited.
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE
TO THE AUSTIN SEVEN
Pub: Practical Classics, A4 full
colour, £6.99 or £20 for a signed and numbered collectors' edition incl.
an A2 double-sided diagram of the car. Mail order:
https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/practical-classics-specials/eprcespc/austin7_1 |
Original Austin Seven: The
Restorer's Guide to All Passenger Car and Sports Models 1922-39
(Original Series)
Hardcover 2008 by Rinsey Mills .
£27.50 from Amazon
Direct link:
http://amzn.eu/76fw9qA
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"Willow and Monty go to a
Wedding”
by Tanya Fraser Dunford and
illustrated by Scott Paterson.
A beautifully illustrated
children's storybook about a little girl and her special friend - a 1928
Austin Seven Chummy. £10, £3 UK p&p. Email to order
willowandmonty@aol.com
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The Wall of Death
by Ann Wright
The Todd and Soutter shows toured all over Britain and Europe, as well
as Abyssinia and Persia, and were seen by British and foreign royalty,
Hitler and Mussolini, and thousands of the general public.
£19.95 from Amazon
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by Nick
Baldwin
£13.49 from
Amberley Publishing 01453 847800.
Direct
link:
https://www.amberley-books.com/austin-tractors.html
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Austin Seven Lubrication simply explained : booklet
£3.00 plus £1.00 p&p from BA7C Membership Secretary, June Price.
Tel: 01225 426621; email:
membership@ba7c.org
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HINTS ON FITTING
AND ADJUSTING THE ZENITH CARBURETTER
This
is an exact colour reproduction of a rare 1930 revised edition of the
Zenith carburettor guide now in the possession of a member of the
Bristol Austin Seven Club. The comprehensive 20-page booklet
details, with cut-away drawings, the correct set-up and trouble-shooting
procedures including "Common running troubles and their remedies". A
must for 22FZ & FZB equipped Sevens and a wonderful addition to any
historic motoring library.
£5 per copy, plus £1 p&p, available from BA7C Membership Secretary, June
Price. Tel: 01225 426621; email:
membership@ba7c.org
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THE AUSTIN SEVEN MANUAL
by Doug Woodrow
£47.99 plus £6.50 p&p.
Tel: 01945-430058
E-mail: susan.woodrow@gmail.com |
by
David Edwin Morgan
£45 from Amazon.
Click
here for direct Amazon link
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Paperback £4.92 through
Amazon.
Direct link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Austin-Seven-Shire-Library/dp/0747804168/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=41EEYCC65HFPFFJJ9ZHZ
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(750 Motor Club)
£23 from the 750MC
Direct link:
http://www.750mc.co.uk/store/products,austin-seven-companion-book_50.htm
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AUSTIN CARS 1948 TO 1990.
A PICTORIAL HISTORY
By David Rowe.
Paperback
• 21 x 14.8cm •112 pages
£12.99 POST FREE
A full-colour comprehensive
guide to Austin cars built from 1948 until the
end of production in the 1990s.
Includes a history of
each model • Model by model comparisons • Detailed technical information
• Colour schemes listed • Standard and optional equipment details •
Dashboard instrument layout diagrams • Production
numbers and dates • Original prices • Special
editions included • Full colour photographs Cheques made payable to:
Austin Seven Owners’ Club (London)
Peter Hill, 4 Bumbles Close,
City Way, Rochester,
Kent, ME1 2TY
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In 1968 Brian Milton fell in love with a
girl called Fiona
Campbell, who lived in South Africa. She agreed to marry him and he
resolved to drive a1937 Austin 7 Ruby called Alexa across Europe,
the Sahara Desert and the tropical Congo to claim his bride.
The car didn’t make it, but a great many adventures occurred. Brian
crashed Alexa in the Sahara after suffering ptomaine poisoning from
a tin of sardines. He spent three days hammering the car back into
shape, but was abandoned by his escort on the most difficult part of
the journey after Tamanrasset – they wearied of pushing him out of
sand-drifts. Brian was robbed of various pieces of equipment by
desert Arabs, and ran out of water twice en route. He negotiated
with other Arabs over a desert well, agreeing to pay two cigarettes
and two aspirin for five gallons of water. The last desert scare was
genuine fears over a broken half-shaft. Brian ran out of money in
Nigeria, then in the middle of a civil war, but was adopted by three
Swiss travellers on promises that any debts he ran up he would pay
with money from articles written for the Irish Independent for which
his father had once worked. Brian sent his dispatches to Dublin by
collaring travellers to Europe and asking for them to be posted
through civilised postal systems. They all got through to the
newspaper.
Driving into Chad in central Africa, a piston ring broke and Brian
was forced to continue for the next 2,000 miles with just 3 working
pistons, no plug at all in the 4th piston. Not long afterwards the
three Swiss burned one of their two Citroen ID-19s, and one went
down with jaundice and had to be air-lifted home.
ALEXA – The Life and Death of an Austin 7 Ruby is
published by Burning Daylight Books and available online at
www.brian-milton.com or from R.B.Milton at
2 Cyprus Street, London E2 0NN |
The story of the journey
made by six Austin Seven cars crossing the Andes in
2005.
Author - Vince Leek; Foreword by John Coleman
– a must for every Austin
Seven enthusiasts’ bookshelf
238 pages of text and 72 pages
of colour pictures.
by post (UK) direct from Vince Leek.
Holm Oak, Upton Scudamore, Warminster,
Wiltshire. BA12 0AQ
The British Library Data No. is ISBN
978-1-872410-72-1 |
The Motor Sport Book of the Austin Seven
by Bill Boddy (originally publ. 1972)
The Pre-War Austin
Seven Club (PWA7C) has secured the rights to publish this
important work. Apart from from a few additional
photographs, this reprint is exactly as per the original. Contact Chris
Garner on 01664-822476 |
7 Booklets “Proved by Time”
Roger Harvey has had
printed a limited number of these wonderfully evocative booklets
(Publication 657A) featuring A7 models from the early 30s.
Ring Roger on 01590-683940 to order your copy and he will
deliver to DA7C club night. |
Yes, that's me and these diaries are mine. I'm Miss Daisy by the
way, born in Birmingham on the 15th March 1934 and now living in
retirement in a quiet corner of Pembrokeshire - Well I wish it
was retirement; because my companion, who I call Her Ladyship,
is an unpredictable woman of some 66 years. In fact not just
unpredictable, she's volatile and impulsive. In truth she's a
pain in the proverbial whatsit. We share our home with Sir
Herbert Orsten. I call him The Grey One and he goes on and on
about how he went round the world back in the 1970s. I ask
you... That silly old fool? Round The World? Good Heavens, he
can't even navigate himself down the drive... Round the World
indeed!
"Miss Daisy's Diaries" was published at the
beginning of July and is now on sale at all good bookshops and
available via the usual internet book sites in both print and E
editions. Over the next few months, Her Ladyship is taking me
around South Wales and the West of England for book signings. If
you go to the
News Page
you will find details of where I will be for book signings and
any TV / Radio / Event appearances I will be making.
"Miss Daisy's Diaries"
Published by Matador Books Special
Offer only from the Website - Author Signed copies
available. Go to
http://www.missdaisydiaries.co.uk.
Email Her
Ladyship for more information |
Over
200 A7 anecdotes and other items of intrigue, humour, amazement and
variety—a few are even shocking! A5
publication of 64 pages with numerous illustrations.
Only a
limited number – so ensure you have yours before stocks run out.
Signed
copies + £2 (optional but all good for the charities).
Proceeds to Cancer Research & Water For All.
Available from: Jen Dunford, 280 Church Rd, Frampton Cotterell, Bristol
BS36 2BH.
Cheque
payable to J Dunford, please.
Advisable to: enclose your address and email or phone number in case
stocks are depleted.
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 AVAILABLE AGAIN! Clive
Ball drove Samantha, a 1929 Austin 7, round the world
between 1965 and 1972, meeting and marrying his
wife Sheila in Perth, Australia on the way. Samantha covered 48,000 miles
over some terrible roads, visited 38 countries and
crossed the mighty Andes in South America four times,
once at nearly 16,000 feet. Clive's keen sense of humour
pervades this captivating account of one of the longest journeys ever
undertaken in such an old car. Since
this book was originally published, it has become a sought-after classic in
vintage car and travel circles alike.
"I commend this story of a round-the-world trip
in a Vintage baby car." The Observer
"A difficult book to lay aside." Motor Sport
"A thoroughly good read." Sunday Times
"Extremely well written and difficult to put
down." 750 Motor Club
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A Spanner in the Works
The extraordinary story of Alice Anderson and
Australia’s first all-women garage.
Available from Amazon at £26.
Click here for link.
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“Wartime Jeeps”
by Graham Scott. Includes Bantam. Special offer, signed, post-free
from Herridge & Sons Ltd., Tel:01409-281990, e-mail info@herridgeandsons.com.
Website: www.herridgeandsons.com.
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Posh, hardcover binders are now available for all
those Austin Seven Clubs’ Association magazines kicking
about the house.
Each binder will accommodate 3 years’ worth of
magazines and can be ordered directly from Iaqn
Mason-Smith (01425– 402036) for delivery at club night or by
post by arrangement. |
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CLASSIC
CAR BODYWORK MANUAL
by Lindsay Porter
Traditional skills to latest techniques.
Panel beating and lead loading to plasma cutting and modern spray
paints. All in Step-by-Step detail. EVERY JOB YOU COULD NEED! • Mig and
Gas Welding and Brazing • Plasma and Gas Cutting • Stripping and
Preparing for Paint • Masking and Spraying Techniques • Panel Beating •
Rust Treatment and Proofing • Galvanising Explained • Windscreens,
Window Winders and Door Locks • Mixing and Applying Body Fillers •
Repairing Glassfibre Bodywork • Polishing and Cleaning.
This extensively revised and updated book was
first published as Car Bodywork Repair Manual by Haynes Publishing.
Available from Amazon
here.
£17.95
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A7 Factory Initials Booklet
Identifying AUSTIN SEVENS by Their Factory Initials
New Edition
In response to many enquiries, I am please to
announce that the third edition of my booklet ’ Identifying
AUSTIN SEVEN’s by Their Factory Initials’ is now available for
immediate despatch.
This is a limited edition of just 500 copies, is updated with new
information and is written with Phil Baildon and Dave Martin as
invaluable consultants. If you would like a copy for yourself, please
send an A5 stamped self-addressed envelope and a £5 cheque made payable
to ’Graham Baldock’ to 1 Clifton Mews, Central Avenue, Church Stretton,
Shropshire SY6 6FA
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