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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.
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The Austin
Seven, a small four-seater with a four-cylinder engine nicknamed the Chummy, became the first affordable car in Britain.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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