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CGVA00319 Austin A40 Van - Cow and Gate Corgi Classics Our Price: £11.75 (List Price: £15.99, You Save: £4.24) Availability: In Stock. Order before 1pm Monday to Friday for same day dispatch, otherwise sent next working day. Size: 1:43 Scale Age: 14 years and up Release: March 2007 Type: Static Model Manufacturer's Code: VA00319 Product Code: CGVA00319

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The A40 of 1947 was Austin's first mass market post-war car and marked the debut of a new 1200cc 40bhp OHV engine that was the direct ancestor of the familiar B-Series unit but which was very different in detail. The car was completely new from stem to stern and also featured a new gearbox and front suspension design. The A40 had a separate chassis, which enabled it to be built in a variety of body styles and Austin certainly exploited this. As a four-door it was marketed as the Devon, whilst the two-door was called the Dorset and the convertible was known as the A40-Sports. Its chassis was used almost unaltered to create the A40 Somerset of 1952. The van version, modelled here, was available from 1948 and was produced alongside its pick-up cousin until the range was dropped in 1956 after 140,060 vans/pick-ups had been built. Founded in 1771 by the Gates family as a small grocery shop in Guildford, Surrey. Expansion into the dairy trade followed in 1887 with a new business called The West Surrey Central Dairy. During 1900 they began to sell milk powder to the bakery and catering trade and this followed in 1904 with a link to the medical profession by supplying milk powder to be used as baby food. 1908 saw the first advert for Cow & Gate and by 1920 the Cow and Gate brand was so strongly associated with baby feeding it was adopted as the company name. Today the company is part of Royal Numico a European leader in scientific nutrition for infants.

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