Austin 15 hp

The Austin 15 hp was a 2.8-litre motor car made by the British manufacturer Austin and first shown at the seventh motor vehicle exhibition at Olympia in November 1908, with a tax rating of 20 horsepower. It was sold from 1908 to 1915. The first version, 213 of which were built from 1908 to 1910, used a four-cylinder 2,539 cc monobloc engine with a 89 mm bore and 100 mm stroke and a three-bearing crankshaft, Austin's only pre-First World War model with a monobloc casting. The clutch was a cone with leather-faced sections that could each be removed and cleaned in moments. A revised T-head 15 hp followed.