Gumdrop (book series)
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Val Biro
Val Biro , children's author, artist and illustrator, was a native of Hungary now resident in Sussex in England. He received his education in Budapest and London...
. They concern a 1926 Austin 12 hp
Austin 12 hp
The Austin 12/4 was introduced by the Austin Motor Company in 1921. It was the second of Herbert Austin's post World War I models and was in many ways a scaled-down version of the 20/4, introduced in 1919...
called "Gumdrop", who gets involved in various adventures. The car is real and in the author's possessions, but the stories are fictional. The first book was The Adventures of a Vintage Car (1966) and the last was Gumdrop's School Adventure (2001).