Austin Seven

AUSTIN SEVEN

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Universe: All

Story: XXXXX

First seen: XXXXX

Type: Car. Some van, pickup etc versions.

Year(s): XXXX / also 2045 - 2180 in Gamma universe.

Crew: 1

Passengers: 3, maybe 4 if small.

Top Speed: XXXXX

Weapons: XXXXX

Defence: Crumple zone = size of driver's nose.

Capacity: Not much. Maybe a set of golf bats if you can get a big enough wickerwork basket.

Length: XXXXX

Width: XXXX

Height: XXXX

Fuel Type: Petrol

General Info:

The "Baby Austin" was a famous British small car of the pre-war period. It was the first popular car to feature what is now considered the "conventional" layout of controls. The design was also copied by XXX in Germany and XXX in Japan, where it became the first "Toyota". Over it's production lifetime it was, like the Ford Model T, fitted with a wide array of different bodies for different purposes and styles. This was also the age where people would buy a chassis and comission a custom body from a coachbuilder, though that wasn't as common on "cheap" cars like these (still far beyond the means of most typical British working class people. But they had the factory at one end of the lane and the pub at the other, so who needed to go any further? What a terrible, primitive time, eh? Finish school on friday and walk into a job for life first thing on monday. Aren't we so much better off now, with our "access to education" and our "careers"?).

In 2045 Homonian Leyland put the Austin Seven back into production as a "classic styled" (by Homonian standards) small car. It was, unusually for Homonia, fitted with a number of "modernisations" - IE a heater, an electric starter as standard (and a "modern", IE like the 1960's, electrical system in general), wind-down windows, seatbelts and safety glass.

Variants:

XXXX

Origin / Inspiration:

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Picture
		Universe: All
		Story: XXXXX
		First seen: XXXXX
		Type: Car. Some van, pickup etc versions.
		Year(s): XXXX / also 2045 - 2180 in Gamma universe.
		Crew: 1
		Passengers: 3, maybe 4 if small.
		Top Speed: XXXXX
		Weapons: XXXXX
		Defence: Crumple zone = size of driver's nose.
		Capacity: Not much. Maybe a set of golf bats if you can get a big enough wickerwork basket.
		Length: XXXXX
		Width: XXXX
		Height: XXXX
		Fuel Type: Petrol
General Info:	The "Baby Austin" was a famous British small car of the pre-war period. It was the first popular car to feature what is now considered the "conventional" layout of controls. The design was also copied by XXX in Germany and XXX in Japan, where it became the first "Toyota". Over it's production lifetime it was, like the Ford Model T, fitted with a wide array of different bodies for different purposes and styles. This was also the age where people would buy a chassis and comission a custom body from a coachbuilder, though that wasn't as common on "cheap" cars like these (still far beyond the means of most typical British working class people. But they had the factory at one end of the lane and the pub at the other, so who needed to go any further? What a terrible, primitive time, eh? Finish school on friday and walk into a job for life first thing on monday. Aren't we so much better off now, with our "access to education" and our "careers"?). In 2045 Homonian Leyland put the Austin Seven back into production as a "classic styled" (by Homonian standards) small car. It was, unusually for Homonia, fitted with a number of "modernisations" - IE a heater, an electric starter as standard (and a "modern", IE like the 1960's, electrical system in general), wind-down windows, seatbelts and safety glass.
Variants:	XXXX
Origin / Inspiration:	XXXX