Like Henry Ford, Herbert Austin had farming roots. Both brought
motoring to the masses and both attempted to take the physical
drudgery out of farming by introducing mechanisation. Austin
imported American machines in the First World War and heard about
the revolutionary new Fordson. His take on the new rigid, frameless
technology was the 1919 Austin R, built at his Birmingham car
factory. The inexorable reduction of the price of Fordsons saw
Austin move his tractors to the more protected French market, where
they soon challenged Renault's dominance. A former leather works
with farming estate at Liancourt, near Paris, became exclusive home
to Austin's tractors, and diesel technology was adopted there long
before it was introduced at Austin in England. The Second World War
saw Liancourt producing German military vehicles and the
imprisonment and in some cases execution of the Austin management.
The dreadful conditions at Liancourt were highlighted at the
Nuremberg Trials. Afterwards, there was a brave attempt to revive
the French tractors and British Austin engines were used in Bristol
crawlers. This book tells the fascinating and largely untold story
of the tractors made by one of Britain's biggest car makers, and
also looks other uses of Austin engines in the Austin Champ and
Gipsy.
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