20-03-2020, 06:45 PM
(20-03-2020, 05:59 PM)Tony Griffiths Wrote:(20-03-2020, 05:26 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: It's sobering to think that they probably lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign.One always wonders if this generation experienced from, say 1842, when around 10-years of age, a greater transformation in society than from 1940 to the present.
I guess their first experience of motor cars was when they were around 50 years old — the great transformation in their lives would be the coming of the railways and airplanes crossing the channel etc,
Strikes me that Austin was well up on sales promotion and wanted as wide a market as possible.