{"id":1878,"date":"2019-06-11T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2019-07-03T23:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T22:20:49","slug":"meeting-2nd-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Meeting &#8211; 2nd July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next meeting at St Saviour\u2019s Church Hall is on Tuesday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> July 2019 at 8.00pm when we will have a presentation by Max Hunt entitled \u201cHerbert Austin and Longbridge\u201d. Max was a former history master and later Director of Education for Stockport. He was born in Romsley and remembers the special trains taking Austin workers home from Longbridge stopping at Hunnington Station. His first car was an Austin Seven &#8216;Nippy&#8217; made at Longbridge in 1935.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Whether you are interested cars or not, I think this will be an interesting and maybe nostalgic evening. \u2018The Austin\u2019 at Longbridge as it is still fondly remembered, was a local manufacturer which has employed many tens of thousands of Midlanders since 1906 and many of us will have family members who were employed there and possibly driven one of the vehicles made there. I can make a claim on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Although Herbert Austin died in 1941 the story of Longbridge, once Europe\u2019s largest car factory, continued through the fifties and sixties when the factory was under the control of William Lord. Cars were styled by Battista Pininfarina and Alex Issigonis. The latter developed the Mini launched in 1959 and the highly successful Austin 1100. Unfortunately, it is a story which does not have a happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Visitors are most welcome at all our events. See hhfs.org.uk for details and contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our next meeting at St Saviour\u2019s Church Hall is on Tuesday 2nd July 2019 at 8.00pm when we will have a presentation by Max Hunt entitled \u201cHerbert Austin and Longbridge\u201d. Max was a former history master and later Director of Education for Stockport. He was born in Romsley and remembers the special trains taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}