Optional Radio and Recliners?

[gs.davies]

I've literally just given the green light to get restoration work on my '61 Austin Seven started and I've been doing some research...

On this site, there's a link to the original sales prices and for the Deluxe, optional extras were a radio and a pair of recliners.

Does anyone know anything about either of these options? Are the recliners like the Cooper recliners? How would they have been trimmed in a Deluxe? Anyone ever seen a Deluxe with factory recliners??

And the radio; whilst I had a modern radio with two pod type speakers on the rear shelf when I last drove the car 17 years ago, I'd like the resto to be a bit more authentic. What sort of radio would have been fitted and more importantly, where on earth would the speaker(s) have gone?

Cheers,
Gary

[Ronnie]

I've literally just given the green light to get restoration work on my '61 Austin Seven started and I've been doing some research...

On this site, there's a link to the original sales prices and for the Deluxe, optional extras were a radio and a pair of recliners.

Does anyone know anything about either of these options? Are the recliners like the Cooper recliners?

No they look more like the optional Mk3 rake adjusting seat with the ball end on the recline lever.

[gs.davies]

Don't suppose anyone's got a picture of these and how they would have been trimmed? Were they common to any other BMC car of the age?

Any thoughts anyone on the radio, its spec and how that'd have been fitted?

[mk1]

The seats look like standard non reclining seats, trimmed the same as standard too.

The Radio didn't have speakers, it had a speaker. This single speaker was either fitted in the rear parcel shelf or behind the dash liner on either drivers or passenger side.