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Old 22nd December 2020, 16:40   #14
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Originally Posted by BRG75 View Post
I have just glanced through various parts of this Austinmemories.
Indeed, very interesting. I then came upon the section that covers the J40 childs pedal car.
Made in much larger quantities than I had realised, it provided work for ex coal miners, suffering with mining related ailments.
I ended up reading the whole article, which in it's own way is quite humbling.

Thank you.
I remember at junior school the police used to carry out road safety training from time to time and would set out the playground as road scenes with crossings, traffic lights etc and the highlight for us kids was that the pedal cars they used to bring were the Austin pedal cars.
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