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Austin Twenty is a large car that was introduced by Austin after the end of the First World War in April 1919 and continued in production until 1930. After the Austin 20/6 model was introduced in 1927, the first model was referred to as the Austin 20/4. Before 1919 Austins had been expensive prestige cars. In the 1920s there were people who believed the four-cylinder Twenty comparable with if not superior to the equivalent Rolls-Royce. If the coachwork were light enough the Twenty could also give a three-litre Bentley a run for its money. The final inter-war version was the enormous, extremely elegant fast and powerful side-valve Twenty-Eight of 1939. The overhead-valve (25) Sheerline and its companion Princess were to continue the line after the Second World War; however, by the 1930s Austin had lost its aristocratic cachet, having become well known for its Twelves and Sevens.〔Martyn Nutland, ''Brick by Brick: The Biography of the Man Who Really Made The Mini – Leonard Lord'', 2012, AuthorHouse ISBN 978-1-4772-0318-7〕 The deceptively potent four-cylinder Twenty found fame at Brooklands both in private hands and with Works drivers Lou Kings and Arthur Waite (Herbert Austin's Australian son-in-law and competitions manager).〔 ==One model policy== Before World War I Austin had produced a range of expensive cars including a 3.6-litre 20-hp car but, influenced by the manufacturing philosophy of Henry Ford, Herbert Austin decided that the future was in mass-producing a single model and chose that size. The Longbridge plant had been considerably enlarged for wartime production, and it was here that the company had a base to put the theory into practice now with the capacity to manufacture 150 cars a week.〔 1918 Hudson Super Six.jpg|Hudson Super Six Austin 20 Tourer 1920.jpg|Austin Twenty tourer MHV Austin 20 1919 01.jpg|1919 Twenty tourer MHV Austin 20 1919 02.jpg|considered by ''The Times'' rather ugly During the war Austin had owned an American Hudson Super Six which he clearly admired. Its overall layout would form a basis for the design of the new one model car policy. The car would, however, prove to be too large for the home market, only about 3,000 Twenties had been sold by July 1920.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin Twenty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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