The Austin seven engine,The Mighty Atom 1932(heritage motoring films)

[@Kidderman2210]

Nice shot of the Elan Valley aqueduct over the River Severn at Trimpley at 6.05

[@lawrencelewis8105]

I was at a classic car show at the Amberley Museum a few years ago- I've never seen so many Sevens in one place as well as larger, more powerful Austin models of the same era. One Seven was an RAF radio van with its original equipment. Quite fascinating!

[@brucedibben7604]

Change the oil every few thousand miles and I would imagine that this two bearing marvel would run for ever. Many thanks. Marvellous video.

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

Thanks for your comments. That is one of my earliest uploads and it's still popular, I know of a guy who,s dad built his own bike using the seven engine, he has recently finished rebuilding it.

[@Obbsserver]

Thanks for posting this. The film of the Yarmouth Miniature Railway is very valuable for enthusiasts.

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

I believe that the railway closed in 1937, though I might be wrong,however you have given me an idea, as the miniature railway is a special interest I will edit and post that clip separately .

[@craigpennington1251]

Outstanding video of a little engine that could. Motorcycle was quite unique and cool. Like all engines, you must respect the limits of and they will give you years of service.

[@cameronjenkins6748]

All this and only with two main bearings. How remarkable.

[@BrassLock]

I thought the quality of the images and audio were quite good and well worth watching. Very impressive applications showing _the DIY brigade_ were alive and well in the 30's, despite not having the advantages of KZbin to stimulate ideas.

[@NickRatnieks]

9;00 This is Newark Priory and Pyrford Mill by the River Wey. Sadly, the spectacular mill which we do not see here was burned down- probably by a vandal who threw an old oil workman's lamp into the building, it was said. Well, that's what I was told when I worked as a riverman there ten years on.

[@alanvcraig]

Really enjoyed this. I had a book on racing and tuning these years ago, and have built a boat with air propellers similar to that at 5:00 (electric, not A7).

[@allenhanford]

Please tell me yours had guards around the propeller.

[@tc19948]

Thank you very much for all these brilliant posts!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Bring back the Austin 700cc engines again!

[@callumhardy5098]

I don’t think Great Britain will ever go back to those days 😟😟 This is what made Britain Great!

[@callumhardy5098]

Goldfinch Hmmm... yes I suppose a good point. My comment, however was more reminiscing back to the days when you could say hello to someone in the street, or when teachers could mention Jesus without being embarrassed of saying his name, when you could smoke in pubs, when Fred Dibnah was on TV and you could by a Traction engine without a ridiculous amount of money. I suppose I was merely looking back to a time in which we took it for granted.

[@callumhardy5098]

Goldfinch Hear hear!!

[@chazsach6594]

@Goldfinch Unfortunately i have to agree.

[@chazsach6594]

@Goldfinch I actually heard a mother of a young girl say to her when she given something "and what do you say". It quite made my day.

[@tc19948]

Hubert Chantrey at 2:06? His old bike (this one) surfaced at auction recently.

[@sidecarbod1441]

8:00.. and the "mighty atom" makes a wonderful anchor for this fine vessel.

[@bigboy9693]

So true.

[@flyerphil7708]

So untrue

[@bigboy9693]

@@flyerphil7708 It so true the British motor industry collapsed because they made trash like this.

[@flyerphil7708]

Big Boy so untrue

[@MrStr8den]

They knew how to test motorcycles back in their day @ 2:22

[@allenhanford]

I know a guy who has one of these engines. Now I just need Brough Superior frame...

[@nathanproudfoot56]

Amazing

[@coz6537]

Interesting. I was offered a '35 Norton solo fitted with an Austin 7 engine, with double wheels as on this Brough. That was in the late '60s, by a friend who ran a tiny m/c dealers right by Heathrow airport. He didn't sell it for ages- started at £1k, & his offers to me came down significantly, but I bought an Inter instead. I thought it would handle better, & the Brooklands can noise was more attractive than an almost-silent Austin!

[@TheFarinared]

Very interesting ties up a pre war mystery for me. Didn't think Dad could run to a Brough.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

you shouldve bought it!

[@ManofMode]

The Hydro Glider, my god health and safety in the 30's left a great deal to be desired. Surely the twin wheel Brough was meant to be used as part of an outfit?

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

Yes I think the Brough was intended for use with a sidecar

[@bigboy9693]

Fitted with a crankshaft bent from the finest coat hanger wire .

[@leifvejby8023]

Enough strength is strength enough

[@bigboy9693]

@@leifvejby8023 That is why the English automotive industry failed, building crap that just had enough strength.

[@leifvejby8023]

@@bigboy9693 You are saying? It is crap because it has enough strength and doesn't break?? Rather enough strength than not enough strength, look at Boeing's pickle fork or Piper's man spar!

[@bigboy9693]

@@leifvejby8023 Does the British motor industry exist today. they manufacture junk and continued to do when superior opposition showed up.. you should really say, just enough.

[@leifvejby8023]

@@bigboy9693 So bad management was caused by the crankshafts in the sevens?

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

If HP 2122 still exists, you'd be talking of at least a 1/3 of a million pounds worth now, I think there are less than 10 Brough Austins surviving.Love the ' polite ' dialogue with ' cut-glass ' accent !.

[@ianrutherford878]

A dialogue is between 2 people.A monologue usually means a speech delivered by one person to an audience.That was narration ----storytelling.

[@stewartellinson8846]

HP2122 was the number that brough put on all their publicity machines. The number is - i believe - currently on a bike claimed to be the prototype SS100 alpine. Only 10 (i think) of the austin seven engined bikes were made. i believe the brough club knows the whereabouts of all of them.

[@mrdanforth3744]

The 3 wheeled 4 cylinder Brough had the drawback that if you added a sidecar it has 4 wheels meaning it could not be registered as a motorcycle, it had to be registered as a car. This meant the road tax was much more expensive, and you needed a car driving license which was more expensive and harder to get than a motorcycle license. As the bike was meant for a sidecar tug this rather spoiled its appeal. They did make a handful of them. Why they did not use a chain drive and single rear wheel I don't know.

[@stewartellinson8846]

@@mrdanforth3744 George brough like his technology. I don't think you're correct about the Brough - austin. Wehn a pair of wheels are less than 11" apart, the law treats them as a single wheel

[@MrDaiseymay]

too irritating

[@thomasburke2683]

I hope the motor cycle stunt man had good insurance, both life and permanent health insurance. If a guy wearing a helmet did this today, the health and safety promoters would die of apoplexy. Seeing the stunts without a helmet would drive them to drink.

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

He was wearing a good clean pair of overall,s though most important, safety wasn't high in priority back then

[@mongomoonbladder8023]

Health and safety would be frothing at the mouth at some of these genius inventions....😁

[@dduckman1423]

I wonder how many people were killed by the prop on the Hydro-Glider?

[@mongomoonbladder8023]

@@dduckman1423 They didn't call it the bacon slicer for nothing... Probably.

[@MrDaiseymay]

and thats why we don't have any these days

[@mongomoonbladder8023]

@@MrDaiseymay They were sure fun to watch though, 😀

[@fidelcatsro6948]

especially at the mc rider ridng and doing stunts without headgear at least...

[@jimmywalker1568]

Was this the forerunner engine of the Reliant

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

as I understand it was, Austins gave reliant the seven tooling at the end of production, they then made improvements and used the engine up till the 1950s

[@tedf1471]

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Reliant kept developing the engine up until 2002.

[@stevebayfield6128]

Yes - the Regal and 325 both used the A7 motor, as I recall....

[@georgeosborn112]

Reliant designed and built their own All-aluminium, OHV engine from 1961, a far cry from the cast-iron SV Austin unit. This wet-liner engine continued in production until Reliant's end in 2002.

[@captainboggles]

and all this too early to mention the Reliant mk5 and 6.

[@stevebez2767]

Mallard fizz

[@kyle8952]

I don't think I'd be happy if my car was being painted in an open workshop. Or parked next to one being painted, either.

[@dubsydubs5234]

Different paint back then, it only leaves dust on the other cars, it doesn't stick at all. They didn't have spray booths, they air dry and buff it after if you were lucky.

[@siraff4461]

It's fine. He gave it a quick wipe with his hand before he started.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

That's lacquer paint if it gets on another car it's easily polished away- you can polish a lacquer painted car until the primer starts to show. You can't buy lacquer anymore.

[@graemewilliams1308]

Indian Larry did that & died.

[@westcoast3595]

Graeme Williams Any one that truly loves riding has done that and more. Death is in life.

[@samuesoeilyoriy6581]

i am almost sure this engine is actually a german design

[@kyle8952]

No

[@jackflashvintagemotoring7586]

The mechanicals of the Austin seven where down to Stanley Edge then only 18, he drew inspiration from the larger Austin cars at the time in some cases simply scaling down the size, the gearbox a case in point, scaled down from the Austin 12, Edge did know a thing or two about engines though.

[@barry5111]

The first BMW was actually the Austin 7 built under licence the BMW Dixie

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@barry5111 correct

[@stevebayfield6128]

I am almost sure that everything in this world is a German design... from Atom bombs to paper clips.....

[@johnrawlins6147]

Fantastic