Austin A30 When my Wife & I started stepping out she drove this 1950's Austin A30 whereas I drove around in a Mk 1 Ford Cortina Estate. (Not that it was significant but both were Green with white roofs.) I discovered this 120 neg of my wife’s motor on the weekend & scanned it with the V550. {} Austin A30 by Roger Evans, on Flickr This then led to me doing a google on the A30 & came up with this bit of design history http://www.austina30a35ownersclub.co.uk/StyleDesign.aspx what I didn’t know was the connection with Raymond Loewy Designers as stylists – as with most things in design the history can be fascinating and if only they had kept true to the original concept we would have had a much more stylistic design in the UK for small family cars with far reaching design influences. http://www.raymondloewy.com/about.html
Hah! I remember my father having one of these (actually, it was the later A35 model, rather than the A30) as a company car in the late fifties. Of course, it's a little difficult to imagine one of these as a company car, these days...! Thanks for posting, and bringing back some good memories.
