What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Mike Costigan]

The key to Austin Seven travel is indeed maintaining momentum: be prepared to increase speed downhill in order to crest the next rise without loosing to much speed, anticipation, especially of traffic lights and be prepared to slow down in anticipation of the lights changing before you get there ... On the journey above I doubt if I used the brakes more than three or four times in the 65 miles.

Longer journeys will inevitably involve a reduction of overall average speed because of stops, but a running average of 30mph shouldn't be an impossible target.