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J40 Motor Company keeps these Austin-based classic pedal cars alive

27th January 2022

Good news for owners and enthusiasts of the J40 pedal cars, originally built by Austin, and now the tradition continues through the J40 Car Company. J40 Motor Company races ahead in 2022. They tell us: J40 Motor Company to offer a continually updated range of restored and unrestored cars for sale A brand-new range of exclusive J40 continuation cars will launch Full factory … [Read more...]

Why Austin’s Smallest Car Hails from the Welsh Valleys

24th November 2015

Some 66 years on, Dave Moss remembers the disabled Welsh miners who produced 30,000 cars... Pengam, on the outskirts of Bargoed in south Wales, is a pretty unlikely place for a car factory - but its product was a pretty unusual car. Deep in the Rhymney Valley, landlocked by hills, eighteen tortuous miles north of Cardiff and almost as far from Ebbw Vale and Merthyr Tydfil, for years the … [Read more...]

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