This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car run in May 1987 and is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester just about to start the Run.
It's the 1917 Austin Chummy of David Blackburn, and the note about the car in the programme of the event reads as follows:
'1927 Austin Chummy
Reg: UX 1337 4 cylinder 7 hp
(David Blackburn, Trawden, Colne)
Believed to have been owned for many years by a district nurse in Wales. Made its Manchester to Blackpool debut last year.'
Some 290,000 Austin Sevens were produced between 1923 and 1939 and they had a 4-cylinder inline 747cc engine. It gained the name 'Chummy' as the four seater body on a car with a wheelbase of only 6ft 3in and a track of 3ft 4 in meant that the passengers sat very close to each other.
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