Nearly seventy, ER
volunteered for war work herself, and despatched her car (which she called Jane Austen after the novelist and the Austin
make of car) for active service.
Johnson, Richard William. “Associated Prigs”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-21.
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1922: The Austin Seven, a small four-seater with...
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1922
The Austin
Seven, a small four-seater with a four-cylinder engine nicknamed the Chummy, became the first affordable car in Britain.
