20-09-2023, 08:08 AM (This post was last modified: 20-09-2023, 08:46 AM by Howard Wright.)
Hi Prithvi
The starter switch would be hand operated and positioned just forward of the passenger seat on the prop shaft tunnel.
The carb would be a Zenith FZ 22. The carb on home models would have been made of Mazak which corrodes and is often replaces with a later Zenith (24T? from memory). Export cars may have been shipped with a bronze carb. Export carbs often had a boss on the intake to accept a filter.
I don’t think any gauge illumination was present and the instruments were definitely not back lit.
The luggage rack is an addition.
Cheers
Howard
Hi Again Prithvi
Just in case you are not aware there is a club associated with the UK Austin Seven Clubs’ Association. They may be able to help with spares etc.
Austin Seven Club of India
Manjo Sharma, D315, Sadarpura, Jodhpur, 342 002, Rajasthan, India
20-09-2023, 09:18 AM (This post was last modified: 20-09-2023, 09:39 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
Hello Prithvi. What a great find. It's definitely an AG with the steel body shell and two vertical pressings down the back face. Incidentally, Austin never called any A7 a Chummy, they were always advertised as 'Tourers'. Hence, your car could indeed be called a 'Chummy' - though some think that this 'qualification' ended in mid-1930 with the demise of the AE and the introduction of the long-bonnet, tall-radiator AF. The AF and AG are indeed the most prosaic of the breed and lack the cheeky, cute looks of the earlier models - but don't worry, I have an AF as well and, like all of us, enjoy all many varieties.
Some background:
There are so many Austin 7 clubs that, in 1969, an association of them was formed - and this is now the go-to place that hosts a mass of important data: https://a7ca.org/ This is now a very large site with lists of clubs, a superb archive of historical data, reproduction handbooks, chassis and car registers, A7 history, A7 model identification, events, etc.
A handbook and parts list can be downloaded as a PDF: https://archive.a7ca.org/collections/han...rts-lists/
Sales brochures can be found here: https://archive.a7ca.org/collections/show-brochures/
For new Austin 7 parts use these links: https://a7ca.org/austin-seven/spares/ https://www.theaustinsevenworkshop.com/
For both new and used parts try: http://www.7ca.co.uk/ and http://www.southernsevens.co.uk/
Another link: https://oldcarservices.co.uk/austin-seven-specialists/
Another list for a variety of useful contacts is: https://www.austin7.org/Guide%20to%20Par...0Services/
Austin 7 books can be bought from: http://www.pwa7c.co.uk/bookshop.php
Hello Prithvi, Once you have the car as clean as possible we would all love to see as many detailed photographs as possible. Eight appears to be the maximum at one go, but just keep sending them in batches. It might be that somebody will be able to make a helpful suggestion about one or more of them.
Although the dash has the same instruments as the AF, the glove pockets are massively larger and so much more useful.
I had a couple of AG's 149497 AG 1357 and 150346 (AG no not known) This latter was sold on quickly to "the trade" , but 1357 was much travelled (Hong Kong to USA and reimported by me. It was quite modified with hydraulic brakes sporting head carb & manifold and gearbox) but it was an interesting car to restore. See an article in the Magazine & quite a lot on here under "CHITTI" I believe the AG were a "run out " model perhaps using left over short chassis and a made up (Cobbled together?) steel body made from old Alloy Chummy tooling possibly. No one seems to know how many were made and the production dates. Yours seems to be around June 1931, mine both seemed to be around Spring/early Summer 1932!]
The AG does not feature in "The Original Austin Seven" book
Good luck with the project...what a find!
David Harrison
(22-09-2023, 02:00 PM)David.H Wrote: ... I believe the AG were a "run out " model perhaps using left over short chassis and a made up (Cobbled together?) steel body made from old Alloy Chummy tooling possibly. No one seems to know how many were made and the production dates...
The AG was a normal production model (hardly a 'run-out' model, and certainly not using 'left over' short chassis), built for over a year from January 1931 to June 1932. At that time all the production models were on the short chassis (except the de-luxe saloon aka RN saloon which was introduced for the October Motor Show in 1931). There were no long-chassis tourers, two seaters, standard saloons or vans before the middle of 1932.
Thanks for that....As there was nothing in Rinsey's book about them I imagined they were made alongside the new long chassis as a means of using up obsolescent chassis', but I think that vans used the short chassis for some time forward, so that blows my theory out of the water!
I wonder hw many AG "tourers" were made? Quite a few have come out of the woodwork, perhaps the stronger steel body ( despite its ability to rust for England ! ) helped. They would possibly make a useful trials cars with the stiffer, stronger body.
David
