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#105 - "Restoration Dreams" - Three Austins

#105 - "Restoration Dreams" - Three Austins

$75.00 USD
$75.00 USD
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Material
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Materials

Matte Paper -

We print using using the finest 100% rag cotton, mould made paper, printed with the Giclée (inkjet) printing process, using fade resistant pigment based ink.

Framing -

Our Framed prints include the use of Non-reflective U.V. resistant glass, a Matte board surrounding your chosen image, as well as M.D.F backing board with hangers.

Dimensions

PAPER PRINT SIZE

"D" Size Portrait - 19" x 15" (480mm x 380mm)

"E" Size Portrait -  30" x 22" (765mm x 560mm)


Shipping & Returns

We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, in its original packaging. You’ll also need the receipt or proof of purchase.

To start a return, you can contact us at oldshedproductions@gmail.com. If your return is accepted, we’ll send you a return shipping label, as well as instructions on how and where to send your package. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted.

Care Instructions

"Restoration Dreams" by Oldshed Productions. 

Depicting Three Austins – 1949 A90 Atlantic – 1955 A30 Sedan – 1952 J40 Pedal Car
 

"D" Size Portrait - Premium Matte Paper - 19" x 15" (480mm x 380mm)

"E" Size Portrait - Premium Matte Paper -  30" x 22" (765mm x 560mm)


PHOTOGRAPHERS’ LOCATION NOTES
 
We located this scene in a farm workshop in the north-eastern wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Owned by an expatriate German anglophile and his English/Australian wife, both having a passion for British cars of the 40's & 50's.
They are particularly fond of the Art Deco styling of the Austin A90 Atlantic & the A30. The A90 Altantic was designed to appeal to the US market in an attempt to capture export dollars for a cash strapped post-war Britain.
 
Regrettably, its 30's Art Deco styling and a fashion conscious American market which chased more contemporary automotive look doomed it to be a marketing failure. Large numbers were shipped to markets in the British Commonwealth countries around the world, the A90 enjoyed some limited success in Australia.
 
In 1952 independent car manufacturer Donald Healey used the chassis and running gear of the failed A90 to launch a concept design for very stylish Healey sports car at the Earls Court Motor Show - it was an instant sensation and the Austin Motor Company seizing the moment purchased the design rights and relaunched the A90 as the Austin Healey and one the greatest British sports cars of the 20th century was born.
 
At the time of writing the Atlantic had been sold and shipped to Kiel in Germany, the purchaser now in his 50's was the son of German diplomat posted to Australia in the late 1950's, the family car was an Atlantic A90 which he obviously remembers with some fondness. Now undergoing restoration and soon to be cruising the autobahns in Germany. The A30 in the background is on blocks awaiting restoration.
 
The J40 was an impulse buy by our Austin loving German who at an auction couldn't help himself, as someone who had never paid more the 2 or 3 cartons of beer for a restoration project, he ended up $2500 poorer and the owner of a car he could never drive.
 
It is missing a few parts and the search is on for those elusive bits to bring it back to its former glory. The J40 pedal car was an early and innovative project in recycling and labour retraining initiated by the Austin Motor Company in the late 40's and early 50's, using waste metal from the panel pressings of the Austin A40.

 
Disabled and retraining ex servicemen were used as workers on the pedal car production line, the gauge of sheet was quite heavy and children with beefy leg muscles had the upper hand making a J40 move at any speed. Later models made use of lighter sheet gauges.
 
Ian Sergeant - Diploma Science - Photography
Ben Jackson - Bach Arts - Design - Bach Ed - Design
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