Austin A30

Austin A30 sedan 4 doors

The Austin A30 was a two - or four-door small cars of the Austin Motor Company. After the Second World War were initially only middle-and upper -class vehicles in the production program of Austin. The Austin 7 was no longer manufactured, and the clientele that the larger cars could not afford to miss painful.

In 1951, Austin set a brand new vehicle before: The new model A30 was designed in the modern pontoon and had the first time a self-supporting body with only 3467 mm long and 1378 mm wide. It was as a four-seat saloon ( sedan ) with two or four doors, or as a two-seater Van ( wagon) with two doors at the front and rear doors available. In the front doors were sliding window and small quarter windows that open; in the rear doors, the large windows were securely fixed in the frame and only open the small quarter windows. The car was equipped with a 4 -cylinder front engine (803 cc, 28 bhp (21 kW) ), a 4- speed transmission with shift lever between the front seats and rear wheel drive equipped. The sedan reached almost 100 km / h Instead of a warning system Winker were installed in the frame behind the front doors. The hydraulic brake system had to the front wheels ( brake drum ), and the "frame cylinder" on the boom of the hand brake, that was in turn connected to the drum brakes on the rear wheels.

1953, the Coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II, was offered the car in exuberant national pride with a special palette of exterior colors: They were all (eg, Windsor, Balmoral, etc.) named after the English royal palaces.

In 1956, the vehicle was completely revised and brought up as a successor to Austin A35 on the market.