Description

Austin cars are world-famous but very few know anything about Austin’s life, his personality, or his struggles in keeping together one of the largest car-producing plants during the difficult days between the wars.

Herbert Austin was nearly forty when he founded the great motor manufacturing firm at Longbridge which still bears his name although now part of the vast British-Leyland combine. He designed for Wolseley one of the earliest British cars before it was possible to use motor carriages on the public highway without petty restrictions.

His engineering genius gave the world the Austin Seven — ‘The Motor for the Millions’ — in the early 1920s, thus achieving one of his greatest aims: to provide for the man in the street an economical reliable car.

This book gives an account of the great man as a father, as an engineer, and as a man of generosity and genius.

Hardback in generally very good condition, slight foxing to page edges with good dust jacket, minor scuffs.