22-10-2021, 08:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-10-2021, 08:10 AM by Tony Johns.)
Very interesting to read the various since I shared the photo of the Ulster with a locally made body and the reason why they came to Australia without Factory bodies. So I thought I would add a few more comments.
Impossible to confirm how many sports model Austins were imported to Australia, one important difference with the UK is that a registration number plate does not stay with a car for life, if you forget to renew the registration the previous number is cancelled and the car is issued with a new number. Also we do not have access to many of the old registration records.
At least one 1924 Sports with factory body was imported to South Australia, with records of the first owner and photographs of the car competing at Sellicks Beach. Another South Australian photo on file shows Mrs Young seated in he Gordon England Cup Austin.
Two Super Sports came to Australia, the first one of the prototypes was the car Capt. Arthur Waite used to win the first Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island in March 1928. I once owned the engine from this car and there are S.P. numbers cast on the aluminium castings. This engine is now with Graeme Steinfort in the replica car built by Bill Sheehan. The other Super Sports was imported to West Australia by Len O'Hara as a new car.
There is no record of the exact numbers of Gordon England 'Brooklands' models and Ulsters imported, so a best guess would less than 10 Brookands and perhaps up to 20 Ulsters.
Re calling them Ulsters and not EA Sports, The earliest newspaper report I have is dated 6 May 1931 and shows NSW driver Keith Dalziel with his new Ulster with the body he built himself.
If anybody is seriously interested in learning more about the Australian connection and seeing photographs then this link to the Autosport Nostalgia Forum and search for austin-seven-racing-in-australia-from-1928
Very interesting to read the various since I shared the photo of the Ulster with a locally made body and the reason why they came to Australia without Factory bodies. So I thought I would add a few more comments.
Impossible to confirm how many sports model Austins were imported to Australia, one important difference with the UK is that a registration number plate does not stay with a car for life, if you forget to renew the registration the previous number is cancelled and the car is issued with a new number. Also we do not have access to many of the old registration records.
At least one 1924 Sports with factory body was imported to South Australia, with records of the first owner and photographs of the car competing at Sellicks Beach. Another South Australian photo on file shows Mrs Young seated in he Gordon England Cup Austin.
Two Super Sports came to Australia, the first one of the prototypes was the car Capt. Arthur Waite used to win the first Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island in March 1928. I once owned the engine from this car and there are S.P. numbers cast on the aluminium castings. This engine is now with Graeme Steinfort in the replica car built by Bill Sheehan. The other Super Sports was imported to West Australia by Len O'Hara as a new car.
There is no record of the exact numbers of Gordon England 'Brooklands' models and Ulsters imported, so a best guess would less than 10 Brookands and perhaps up to 20 Ulsters.
Re calling them Ulsters and not EA Sports, The earliest newspaper report I have is dated 6 May 1931 and shows NSW driver Keith Dalziel with his new Ulster with the body he built himself.
If anybody is seriously interested in learning more about the Australian connection and seeing photographs then this link to the Autosport Nostalgia Forum and search for austin-seven-racing-in-australia-from-1928
Impossible to confirm how many sports model Austins were imported to Australia, one important difference with the UK is that a registration number plate does not stay with a car for life, if you forget to renew the registration the previous number is cancelled and the car is issued with a new number. Also we do not have access to many of the old registration records.
At least one 1924 Sports with factory body was imported to South Australia, with records of the first owner and photographs of the car competing at Sellicks Beach. Another South Australian photo on file shows Mrs Young seated in he Gordon England Cup Austin.
Two Super Sports came to Australia, the first one of the prototypes was the car Capt. Arthur Waite used to win the first Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island in March 1928. I once owned the engine from this car and there are S.P. numbers cast on the aluminium castings. This engine is now with Graeme Steinfort in the replica car built by Bill Sheehan. The other Super Sports was imported to West Australia by Len O'Hara as a new car.
There is no record of the exact numbers of Gordon England 'Brooklands' models and Ulsters imported, so a best guess would less than 10 Brookands and perhaps up to 20 Ulsters.
Re calling them Ulsters and not EA Sports, The earliest newspaper report I have is dated 6 May 1931 and shows NSW driver Keith Dalziel with his new Ulster with the body he built himself.
If anybody is seriously interested in learning more about the Australian connection and seeing photographs then this link to the Autosport Nostalgia Forum and search for austin-seven-racing-in-australia-from-1928
Very interesting to read the various since I shared the photo of the Ulster with a locally made body and the reason why they came to Australia without Factory bodies. So I thought I would add a few more comments.
Impossible to confirm how many sports model Austins were imported to Australia, one important difference with the UK is that a registration number plate does not stay with a car for life, if you forget to renew the registration the previous number is cancelled and the car is issued with a new number. Also we do not have access to many of the old registration records.
At least one 1924 Sports with factory body was imported to South Australia, with records of the first owner and photographs of the car competing at Sellicks Beach. Another South Australian photo on file shows Mrs Young seated in he Gordon England Cup Austin.
Two Super Sports came to Australia, the first one of the prototypes was the car Capt. Arthur Waite used to win the first Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island in March 1928. I once owned the engine from this car and there are S.P. numbers cast on the aluminium castings. This engine is now with Graeme Steinfort in the replica car built by Bill Sheehan. The other Super Sports was imported to West Australia by Len O'Hara as a new car.
There is no record of the exact numbers of Gordon England 'Brooklands' models and Ulsters imported, so a best guess would less than 10 Brookands and perhaps up to 20 Ulsters.
Re calling them Ulsters and not EA Sports, The earliest newspaper report I have is dated 6 May 1931 and shows NSW driver Keith Dalziel with his new Ulster with the body he built himself.
If anybody is seriously interested in learning more about the Australian connection and seeing photographs then this link to the Autosport Nostalgia Forum and search for austin-seven-racing-in-australia-from-1928