The truth about another antique Picture

[Tony Griffiths]

Some great ideas about the picture, but it was actually an advertisement for a musical called "Darling, I love you! at the Gaiety Theatre on the Strand, London". The picture needed some Photoshop work to make it into the proper Chummy that the artist intended. The driver was one George Clarke, famous for working up a comedy routine driving an Austin 7 on stage. The theatre was, of course, famous for its "Gaiety Girls" - especially attractive young women who were not hired for their intellectual prowess.  See: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archi...ge-austin7

This piece of silent film is priceless; a late 1929 to early 1930 chummy with wild axle tramp dancing across the stage:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bimTqdrknI  Note the larger-than-usual Austin script on the radiator.

[Bob Culver]

I presume most have read the account of George Clarke  p9 of the Brooklands book "Austin Seven in the Thirties" Perhaps someone can copy.

About 1960 I recall watching a university student learning to drive in a Seven. Proceeded exactly as described.

Even with no shocks surprised the way the axle tramps. Presumably the very light cars will do this more readily.