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PreWarCar or PostWarClassic? We wondered where to publish this book review by Michael Ware as this story about Bill Williams could be read on both sides. In the end we chose for PostWarClassic as few readers will be old enough to have known Bill Williams from pre-war days. So here goes...

Review of an Austin 7 Specials book by Michael E Ware: My first car was a 1931 Austin 7 saloon. I had no desire at that time to build a special, but did want to make the saloon go faster and stop better. I turned to some of the firms that made tuning equipment for these cars including Cambridge Engineering in Kew run by L.M. "Bill" Williams. From this book I quickly learned that this company had been the first in the Austin 7 modification market and could trace its ancestry back to 1932 when Bill Williams founded Auto Conversions in Willesden. His first Austin conversion being completed the following year. It was not until 1941, when Auto Conversions were doing machine work for the aircraft industry that they moved to their more famous address, 151 Cambridge Road, Kew Green (behind the Coach and Horses). It was then that Cambridge Engineering was born. In 1958 the company was under new ownership and it closed in 1967. Stuart Ulph starts his book about L.M. Williams and his Austin 7 Specials by tracing the history of this small company. This was fraught with difficulty as Bill Williams had died abroad in 1964 leaving no written details of the firm's records (continue at Read More)

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