This original 'Ulster' left the works in August 1930 before being registered in Flintshire to its first
owner, one Richard Jones of Mold with registration number DM7155, the same registration number it carries to this day.
The car, chassis number 114979 was used, as many were, in club competition pre-war and there is at least one photo of it competing in the M. C. C. Lands End trial in April 1931.
Post-war the car was owned by a string of vintage car enthusiasts and VSCC members mainly in Yorkshire and these are known right back to the mid 1950s, thanks to the survival of an original buff log book covering the period.
One of these owners in the late 1960s and early 1970s was Mike Costigan, still a well known Austin 7 enthusiast, who embarked on a major rebuild of the car. DM had already lost its original pressure fed engine, but Mike spent much time and effort collecting enough original parts to build up another original Ulster engine, which dates from very early 1931. This is correctly recorded as the cars current engine on the V5C. It runs an "unbreakable" Allen pressure fed crank, one
of the first modern cranks produced and still breathes through the correct bronze 30 MOV Solex updraught carburettor.
Latterly the car was owned by prolific Competition Austin 7 collector Ian Moore before joining a small private museum of
Sports cars in Italy.
After a decade on the continent the car was repatriated and re-registered with its original 1930 registration number DM7155.
The car is now running, taxed and registered correctly, having had a service and oil change, but has made very few public appearances since 2007.
The History file contains various old MOT certificates, 1960 tax discs, bills and all important buff log book recording past owners from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Now presented in super condition, ready to drive and campaign.
Hood and tonneau present.