Registration No: TK 274
Chassis No: 6PL5154
MOT: Exempt

• Understood to have been fully restored between 2000 and 2005 by George Fulton, the Vintage Austin Register's representative in Ireland
• Current ownership since 2014 and only 2 former keepers shown on HPI
• Offered with V5C, handbooks and said to be in 'Very Good' overall condition
• Finished in Green with matching interior and Black roof
  

Herbert Austin was nothing if not ambitious. By the outbreak of WW1 the company that bore his name was Britain's fifth largest motorcar manufacturer. Accepting government contracts for aircraft, shells, heavy artillery and 3-ton lorries saw the Austin Motor Company prosper during WW1. Sensing an opportunity to leapfrog his rivals and taking a leaf from Henry Ford's book, Herbert Austin decided to offer just a single model when peace returned. Hugely impressed by the Hudson Super Six he ran during the hostilities he challenged his designers to create a similarly well-engineered machine.

The first prototype Austin Twenty began to take shape in the chassis erecting shop at Longbridge during 1917. Like the Hudson Super Six, the newcomer featured a substantial ladder frame chassis equipped with all-round semi-elliptic leaf-sprung suspension, rear wheel brakes, an engine of monobloc construction with in-unit, centre-change gearbox and a sheet metal radiator cowl. Displacing 3610cc, its unstressed sidevalve four-cylinder engine developed 40bhp @ 2,000rpm (an output sufficient for Austin to later warrant that the chassis could reach 70mph). Eminently tuneable, privateer Felix Scriven's `Sergeant Murphy' and the Works' `Black Maria' both proved that an Austin Twenty could beat a Bentley 3 Litre or Vauxhall 30/98 in competition, Scriven mount reaching 104mph at Brooklands. Understood to have been fully restored between 2000 and 2005 by George Fulton, the Vintage Austin Register's representative in Ireland, this elegant Twenty Landaulette has been in the current ownership since 2014 and records only 2 former keepers on the HPI report. The interior features black tufted buttoned leather which offers a pretty juxtaposition with the polished gauge bezels and green piping to the door cards. Repatriated with its original registration mark ‘TK 274’, it is said to start and run “very well”, whilst the paint, bodywork, engine, transmission and interior are described as being “very good”. Offered with V5C, handbooks and spares list, this handsome vintage Austin is finished in Green with matching interior and Black roof.

For more information, please contact:
James McWilliam
james.mcwilliam@handh.co.uk
07943 584760