Austin motor co gearbox manufacture 1930s Part of the Mighty Atom film. Dialog starts with "good gear changing for a woman" wouldn't get away with that now eh.
The thought & development that went in to the engineering of the machines & tooling required to produce the gearing & mechanism to the finished gear box.
Fascinating, thank you so much for sharing this and the other films from Austin.What attention to detail, no wonder they have survived well and we can still enjoy driving them today.Buckslad
My first car was an old Mini 1000 and I later bought Datsun B-210 "sunny" to drive while rebuilding the Mini....The Datsun A14 engine looked very much like the A-Series engine in the Austin, and this was in 1978. Both cars were very rust prone
Can you believe the amount of time and effort to produce individual gears, something tells me tyhat if this had been the case in the USA, the number of Jeeps produced would never have met the numbers required.
... Watch next week for part two of "Mansplaining for beginners"... lovely film with a lot of fascinating period insights, but oh lord, feminism couldn't come soon enough
