Austin Motor Company.. Heres to Power (heritage motoring films) 

It’s obvious that as a society we only marvel about the biggest engine with the most HP. I am absolutely amazed at the actual machines and machining back in the days of this video.

Interesting to see Lickey Parish Church as viewed from Warren Lane in the background at 13.10 Just up the road from where the cars were made, and round the corner from Lickey Grange where Sir Herbert Austin lived...

Austin cars were only ever driven in the countryside it seems when you view these films! Mind you, it must be true, as when I was a kid travelling around by train, you could see those little Austin 7 cars dumped in fields with brambles growing up and around them. On another matter, it was interesting to see women workers as well as men. The 1930s, in the new industries- as opposed to the old heavy industry, were a time of innovation and all manner of developments in these new consumer durable orientated markets- a time of hope for a better future. That was, of course, before that fellow in Germany got carried away.

And one of the first BMW cars was an Austin Seven built under licence..

Thanks for that and uploading these items.

I wonder if anyone has ever recognised a relative in these lovely old films ?

What happened in the later years , these were good

Or the later big seven!

Maybe this is work place health and safety gone mad but I noticed a distinct lack of guards around the rotating machinery and all the workers operating them wore neck ties. I guess that would be one way to weed out the careless.

Trying to work out what engine. Three main bearing crankshaft. Side valve. Could be pre war austin ten.

What was the reason for making these excellent films.

2:40 With auto machines like that why were they so unecompetitive?

12:50 25 BHP to give you speedy travel.Yeah whatever.