Specialised
A7 Engineering
· ENGINE building and reconditioning
· GEARBOXES reconditioned including close ratio, Ulster, Nippy and ‘Andes’ conversions.
· BACK AXLES for all models - can also be shortened or offset
· STARTER RING GEARS fitted
· DYNAMOS AND STARTER MOTORS repaired - prompt service.
· STEERING COLUMNS reconditioned
· FLY WHEELS lightened
fast courier service available
A service for the enthusiast by an enthusiast
TEL: 01 985 216632 (09.30am to 6.30pm only please)
E-mail: A7VCL@btinternet.com
A stunning print from an original poster advertising the Austin 7 chummy. Note the humorous registration plate RU412. The poster demonstrates the benefits to the family of the time of car ownership. I believe that the family walking are dreaming of having an Austin 7 and they are pictured in the car.
An A3 print (29.7 x 42 cm) from the original poster of the 1930s, it will be packaged in a strong postal tube. The cost is £9 per print. An A2 print is also available at £15. Contact Noble Arts on info@noble-arts.co.uk or buy via their website: www.noble-arts.co.uk/
Specialist in Classic Vehicles—Over 30 years experience with Austins
Servicing; mechanical and electrical repairs; rebuilds undertaken; MOTs
arranged.
Reasonable rates
Contact: Gary Munn
01202 683848
Try us first for specialising in classic cars:
Servicing Tyres MOTs
Exhausts
£4 off your next MOT
as a member of the DA7C
School Road, Lover,
Nr. Salisbury SP5 2PW
Telephone 01725-510228
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 Bernard Cowley (01202– 887666) for delivery at club night or by post by arrangement at only £4.00 each.
I still have a few (down to single numbers now) of the ‘Little Austin Seven’ and ‘Austin Unity Song’ CD’s at £8.50 including p+p and a re-printed LONGRIDGE PUBLICATION (1060) ‘The Famous Austin Seven’ , a fold out leaflet with illustrations of all the 1932/3 range of Sevens together with technical specification. Copies will be available in the near future for just £5.50. Contact James Stringer on jamescstringer@aol.com
A further batch of new replacement arms should now be available which: Are a new stronger design Fit all standard A7s Are forged, heat treated, crack-tested, machined and powder-coated Meet ISO 9001 standards Further details in the A7CA Mag. 2004B or at www.windling.demon.co.uk/SolentA7/technical.htm They are not cheap at £75 but, having had one break some years ago, I can only recommend fitting a new one. To order, send a cheque for £75 payable to A7 Components Ltd. 18 Russell Ave., Dunchurch, Rugby CV22 6PX or ring: David Cochrane: 01788-523222 Mobile: 07973 633466 or e-mail: david@ingineur.co.uk
Presenting a limited range of superb quality collectables to suit all pockets:
Computer ‘Mouse Mats’ featuring the front cover design from an Austin Cars Catalogue produced especially for the Dutch market in 1926.
Also Boxed sets of six coasters featuring the cars illustrated within the catalogue. Namely, the 7 ‘Chummy’, 12/4 ‘Windsor’, 12/4 ‘Harley’,
12/4 ‘Clifton’, 20/4 ‘Marlborough’ and 20/4 ‘Carlton’ All items are in full colour with the descriptive text in Dutch.
Also available are superb bone china mugs featuring the 7 Chummy, 12/4 ‘Clifton’, 16/6 ‘Fabric Saloon’ 20/4 ‘Marlborough’, Austin Logos. The Centenary mug featuring the Austin head Medallion have all been sold . The designs are taken from 1920’s Austin Motor Company advertising lithographs and are reproduced in blue against the pure white of the china mugs. The rims are finished in gold and are perfectly safe in a dishwasher.
Finally: leather fob key rings bearing the ‘Wings & Wheel’ logo in gold, at just £2.50 each – please state colour required from Red, Maroon, Black, Green or Blue.
The prices for the above are:- Mouse Mat: £8.50 Set of 6 Coasters in presentation box: £12.00 Bone China Mugs: £6.50 each or any 6 for £30.00
Key rings £2.50 (The above prices do not include postage and packing) Please note there are still a few CD’s featuring the digitally enhanced recordings of My Little Austin Seven and The Austin Unity Song - £8.50. Please telephone Jim Stringer on 01795 880165 to check for availability, and send cheques (made payable to ‘J.C.Stringer’) to 7, Court Tree Drive, Eastchurch, Nr. Sheerness. Kent. ME12 4TR.
So you’ve got your beautiful little car, a beautiful passenger and a marvellous Club with lots of activities and day’s out. So what more could you need? Of course, the gear! If you’re looking for made-to-measures leather, suede or sheepskin clothing, at off-the-peg prices, contact:
Leading
Leather 1126 Christchurch Rd. Boscombe Tel:
01202 419416
They do repairs and alterations too at very reasonable prices. Examples of their products can be seen modelled from time to time by Trebs and navigator, and yours truly and mine. Go on spoil yourselves!
A SPECIAL GIFT FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE You know that problem when that special birthday, or Christmas, comes round and you just can’t think what to buy him, or her! So what could be better than to purchase a special something for the one you love and more importantly for the thing that he (or she) loves best. Earlswood Reproduction Ltd. have obtained formal permission from DVLA to reproduce authentic tax discs for cars 1921 to 1974 inclusive. These are produced using traditional materials and printing techniques with hand-written details in the correct style, and even the right ink for the period. The disc shows your vehicle make, registration number, the correct duty paid and stamp for the year of your car. The price at £26 each is not cheap but after all you only have to buy it once and it is that special occasion! Order at: Earlswood Reproduction Ltd., PO Box 888, Camberley GU16 6WD. Tel: 01252 838852 E-mail: info@britishtaxdiscs.co.uk Website: www.britishtaxdiscs.co.uk If it is that special, special occasion, why not complement your period Tax Disc with an equally elegant period Tax Disc Holder available from Willie McKenzie of Austin Reproduction Parts Tel: 01202 694351 – or, if you already have one of Willie’s beautiful holders, you know what you can put in it! Go on beautify your baby!! Ian Mason-Smith Advertising & Services Manager DA7 C
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. Copies are available at £8 each, incl. p&p. Contact Chris Garner on 01664-822476
Roger Harvey has had printed a limited number of these wonderfully evocative booklets (Publication 657A) featuring A7 models from the early 30s. Priced at only £12 for club members they are very ‘must have’. Ring Roger on 01590-683940 to order your copy and he will deliver to DA7C club night.
Dear Sir I have just introduced to the market place, an innovative design of hydraulic car ramps called: The ReayRamp. I advertise in Car Mechanics and Practical Classics and I display them at many Auto Shows and Auto Jumble shows around the UK. My website is www.reayco.co.uk. Please take a look and if you feel that this product may be of interest to your members then please link my site to yours and if I receive any orders that mention your club I will of course offer a discount. This is a brand new product that I am selling, there is nothing else like this available today. Safety has been my first consideration, as I work under cars a lot. I have the benefit of many years of nose up against sumps and I am sure that many of your members who still continue to use trolley jacks and axle stands will easily appreciate the time savings of the ReayRamp. Kind regards John Reay REAYCO 01745 351157 but please reply only to johnreay@hotmail.com quoting Ramps
Classic Car Paint Supplies Ltd.
Unit 10, Quarry Bank Workshops, Quarry Bank Street, Birkenhead, CH41 2XJ
We can match any colour back to the 1930s—cellulose, 2-Pack & Synthetic Hand-brushing Paint in half litre up to 5 litres or in a 400 ml aerosol. Full range of ancillaries at great prices! 10% discount for Club members on their first order Ring for special offers 0151-652-2302
or e-mail: info@classiccarpaints.com
Website: www.classiccarpaints.co.uk
May I introduce you to artofmotoring.com and in particular our poster/chart that celebrates the Austin 7. The poster measures approx 20.25 x 32.75 inches. Our retail price for these is £14.99 each, but we can offer them to you at a very good trade rate, with shipping to you at cost. Alternatively, the posters can be purchased online from our website. All our posters are the highest quality that is possible to achieve. We use only traditional, litho printing and all our products are printed on archival, acid free, heavyweight art paper. In fact, our posters are designed to last a lifetime without turning brown! John Turvill http://www.artofmotoring.com/
Seats, headlinings, tonneaux etc and related work. (No VAT). Contact Roger Harvey on 01590 683940
Website: www.austinrepro.com E-mail: arpmckenzie@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 01202-625242
Address: Unit 29 Glenmore Business Park, Blackhill Road, Holton Heath, Poole, Dorset BH16 6NL
Willie doesn’t just do tools, of course—see page 19 of the latest A7CA magazine for further ideas
Stainless
Automotive Fastenings Ltd.
4 Holding, Heatley Lane, Broomhall, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 8BA, UK.
Tel: 01270 781084 Mob: 07731800634
In 1968 Brian Milton fell in love with a
girl called Fion
a
Campbell, who lived in South Africa. She agreed to marry him and he
resolved to drive a 1937 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 Price: £10.00 + £3.00 P&P or from R.B.Milton at 2 Cyprus Street, London E2 0NN
Hugh Paine - Engineering -
Coachworks
Fabrication of Car Panels and Bodywork
Jaguar XK series - E-Type - Bentley - Daimler -
MG - Austin Seven Series
Office:-
8,Bannkside,
Boldre, Lymington Hampshire,
SO41 8YF
Tel – 07920100369 Fax - 01590-673298 E-mail
hugh.paine@tiscali.co.uk
Dear sirs,
We, are able to provide you with the following services, we have various patterns to fabricate from, but where possible, to be able to take the profile from the original item as we find each panel varies as to the item being altered through time or accident.
1. We can wheel any panel or part panel through to a
complete body.
2. Specialist in fabricating radiator shells in all finishes
3. Lead loading
4. Custom build exhausts, to customer requirements.
5. Accident repairs to classic and vintage cars.
6. Welding methods undertaken in Mig, Tig, and Gas in aluminium,
brass, stainless, copper etc.
7. We welcome your personal enquiries to discuss
any projects or requirements.
PWS Garage storage system
For full details go to www.pwsacc.co.uk or 01202-746851 (Poole, Dorset)
Provides 10x8ft (80 square feet) of additional storage space,
* Made to measure to suit anyone's garage & height of car.
* Fully adjustable uprights to enable vehicle doors to open fully.
* Easy to assemble.
* Secure to the floor using coach bolts.
* Coated in a high-quality polyester spray.
* Delivered flat-packed to your door.
* Capable of carrying 250kg (assumes load spread equally).
* Security fencing stops items dropping off the top (1 end). Provides storage for items such as golf clubs, garden furniture, polishes, windsurfing gear etc.
COLLECTABLES
Christmas Gift Suggestions: Garage wall thermometers. 17” long £75 each (Austin
12/4 also available) Jacquard woven ties. £9.50 for Claret/blue. £12.50 for
gold. The Famous Austin 7’ reproduction of Austin publication No.1060. £5.00 ‘My
Little Austin 7’ & Unity Song’ digitally enhanced CD.£8.50 Bone China Range: 8”
plate £10.00, Jugs: £9.50. And trinket box £8.50 A range of mugs are also
available. Aprons: £10.00, Bags: £8.50, Tea Towels £5.50. I am
about to place an order for two more Austin-related vitreous enamel signs, the
first is for Castrol XL - as recommended by the Austin Motor Company, the other
is KLG Spark Plugs 'Fit and Forget' - again, "Recommended by the Austin Motor
Company". At this stage I do not have a price, but as only 15 will be produced
of each sign advance orders can be taken at this stage. Jim Stringer.
7 Court Tree Drive, Eastchurch. Kent. ME12 4TR. Tel: 01795
880165. Email: james.stringer@sky.com P+P extra. (cheques payable to:
J.C.Stringer). Send large S.A.E. for complete list of collectable items.
Oil Spy
This unique, easy to handle product will analyse engine oil in approximately 15 minutes, giving the earliest warning of problems that could affect the weakest link in the engine… the oil. One drip of warm dipstick oil on the special pad will identify deficiencies and root causes that could otherwise cause catastrophic engine failure. Oil Spy Hanse Schiffstechnik International Efford Park Milford Road Lymington Hants SO41 0JD UK +44 (0)1590 689777 savemyengine@oil-spy.com www.oil-spy.com
Another Reprint!
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.
Cover price is £12.95 or £16.25 by post (UK) direct from Vince Leek.
To order send a cheque made payable to “Vince Leek”,
Holm Oak, Upton Scudamore, Warminster, Wiltshire. BA12 0AQ.
The British Library Data No. is ISBN 978-1-872410-72-1
Hudson & Middleton, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 1PP Tel: 01782 319256 and they have a shop-on-line website at www.hudsonandmiddleton.co.uk. Each mug costs £11.
by Graham Scott. Includes Bantam. Special offer £20, signed, post-free from Herridge & Sons Ltd., Tel:01409-281990, e-mail info@herridgeandsons.com. Website: www.herridgeandsons.com.
At FLOWPLANT we carry out shot blasting and powder coating of both new and old metalwork including body shells, subframes, panels, wheels, tanks, engine & suspension parts. As well as standard RAL colours we can also do metallics and many other specialist colours and finishes. Alternatively we can just blast & prime any parts.
Our website is www.shotblastingpowdercoating.co.uk. We do a free weekly delivery and collection service in the Dorset and Hampshire areas every Friday.
Martin Woodroffe (Works Manager). Flowplant Group Ltd. Brunel Road, Churchfields Industrial Estate, Salisbury, Wiltshire. SP2 7PU. Telephone: 01722 325424
The following set of Postcards have been reproduced from photographs which originally appeared on the front covers of The Austin Magazines during 1929.
The price of these are 80p each or, if you purchase the set of four, just £2.80 (postage extra)
(Tel: 01795 880165) or E-mail: james.stringer@sky.com
Sculptured Automotive make bespoke handcrafted vehicle sculptures to order at a reasonable cost. Rare or modified vehicles are our speciality. Do please have a look at the website (www.sculpturedautomotive.com) if you get a chance and we have just introduced the ‘Car Club Limited Offer’ which may also be of interest to you and your members. Basically this means you can share the cost of having a sculpture made between up to four people and you each get one (details on website). Contact Simon Cain on 01625 611170 – 07793 216415 or simon@sculpturedautomotive.com
Pencil drawings of classic cars—what a great idea for the classic car enthusiast! These super prints and greeting cards have been reproduced from my pencil drawings. The price for each A4 print is £7, for each A5 print £4, for each greetings card £3. Postage and packing within the UK is completely free. Currently, Chummy, Box and Ruby prints/cards are available. Go to:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Classic-Car-Art-Drawings.Austin 7 Anecdotes - Published & selling fast!
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.
£5 each + £1 UK P&P. (Europe £2; NZ/Aussie £2.75 airmail)
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.
You can easily add the latest GPS security tracker to your classic car. With just two wires, positive and negative, installation is not difficult and it doesn't matter whether the vehicle is positive or negative earth. The tracker has an internal aerial so there is no need for extra wiring, and its small size makes it easy to conceal. The transformer will run from a 6 volt system as well as 12 volts so the tracker can be fitted to older vehicles. With a big thank you to a member of the Triumph and BSA Owners’ Clubs we now have the tracker capable of being powered by a 6 volt electrical system either positive or negative earth. STOCKADE is a self-monitoring GPS security tracker which uses the GPS navigational system to determine its position and then communicates this information to up to five mobile phones using text messaging. The tracker is magnetic and can be easily positioned so that it can receive both GPS and mobile phone signals. You can telephone the tracker at any time to ask it where it is and it will send you a text message with its co-ordinates. The price is £99 for FBHVC club members with the password gertie1972. Plus there are no annual fees. Visit our web site and see STOCKADE in operation on the video www.rbs-propertymarking.co.uk. Best regards, Stan Ratcliffe, Director. 01474-350-883.