Last updated 25/03/2008
Austin Seven Production
This photograph, taken c1926, shows Chummys being fitted out.
(Click on picture to enlarge)
Note that there is no production line, just a load of trestles. One can only guess that the chassis' and engines were on a line and that the bodies were picked up manually and placed on later as no lifting gear is apparent. Rob Hancox's grandfather, Leonard Hancox, is in the picture somewhere. Indeed his name was printed on the bottom, he was believed to be a foreman. Note also the two or three office girls looking over the balcony, they probably had just as much right to be in the picture, but had to sneak in.
A view of the windscreen shop in 1926
The
Swallow production line in 1927,
both saloon and open tourers being built at the same time.
The
body shop in 1932