Austin A30
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Austin A30 sedan 4 door
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A30 | |
Sales designation: | A30 |
Production period: | 1951-1956 |
Class : | Small car |
Body versions : | Limousine , station wagon , panel van |
Engines: |
Otto engine : 0.8 liters (21 kW) |
Length: | 3467 mm |
Width: | 1378 mm |
Height: | 1480 mm |
Wheelbase : | 2019 mm |
Empty weight : | 686 kg |
Previous model | Austin 7 |
successor | Austin A35 |
The Austin A30 was a two- or four-door small car produced by the Austin Motor Company . After the Second World War , only middle and upper class vehicles were initially in the Austin production program. The Austin 7 was no longer in production and was missed by customers who couldn't afford the larger cars.
In 1951, Austin presented a completely new vehicle: the new A30 model was designed in the modern pontoon shape and for the first time had a self-supporting body, 3467 mm long and 1378 mm wide. It was available as a four-seater saloon (limousine) with two or four doors or as a two-seater van (station wagon) with two doors at the front and rear doors. In the front doors there were sliding windows and small triangular windows that could be opened; In the rear doors, the large panes were firmly embedded in the frames and only the smaller triangular windows could be opened. The car was equipped with a 4-cylinder front engine (803 cm³, 28 bhp [21 kW]), a 4-speed gearbox with a gear lever between the front seats and rear-wheel drive. The sedan reached almost 100 km / h. Instead of a flasher, it had indicators in the frame behind the front doors. The hydraulic braking system acted on the front wheels (drum brakes) and with the "frame cylinder" on the handbrake linkage, which in turn was connected to the drum brakes of the rear wheels.
In 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation , the car was offered with exuberant national pride and a special palette of exterior colors: They were all named after English royal castles (e.g. Windsor , Balmoral , etc.).
In 1956, the vehicle was fundamentally revised and launched as the successor model, the Austin A35 .
Web links
- Website of the German A30 / A35 fans ( Memento from October 23, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
- UK Austin Cars & History website
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- David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1874105936