Oxfordshire Sevens

Ian started working on Austin Sevens about fifteen years ago, in a corner of a workshop in Wooburn Green, becoming Oxfordshire Sevens after moving to Launton five years later. From those early days in the corner of a small workshop, working in the evenings and weekends, Oxfordshire Sevens has grown into a successful Austin Seven business restoring and repairing customers’ cars, manufacturing panels and parts for trade and retail and preparing successful race cars.

Keen to promote an interest in classic cars, Oxfordshire Sevens now has a small team of young, and not so young, enthusiasts.

A list of our key suppliers and specialist contacts can be found by clicking here.

The Oxfordshire Sevens Team

Petunia Peahen, the matriarch behind the business, surveying her realm. Petunia takes great pride in ensuring that everything is presented to impeccably high standards.      

                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Clara Cluck turning off a lead-lamp which someone carelessly left switched on, while her clutch of colleagues casts a beady eye over the work carried out so far.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Ian Tillman.
After an apprenticeship with Airflow Developments, Ian worked in the electronics, light engineering and sheet metal fabrication, producing parts for classic vehicles and fittings for film sets. A life-long interest in cars started with a decrepit Ford Anglia.

James the Apprentice.
After a few weekend tasters working on classic cars, James secured an apprenticeship with Bicester Academy and is gaining a wealth of practical experience with Oxfordshire Sevens and the other motorsports businesses on the site.

Steve.
Steve’s first experience at Oxfordshire Sevens was as a customer, renting space and restoring his own black Ruby on site with guidance from Ian. He now works there, restoring, rebuilding and repairing the fiddly mechanical and electrical ancillaries and doing upholstery.



Louis.
Louis is still at school, but his young age belies how good his all-round mechanics skills are. Keen to learn as much as possible before joining the Navy, he works at Oxfordshire Sevens afer school and at the weekends. He owns a split-screen Morris Minor 1000: it is a pity that he is too young to drive.

George.
George is serving a classic car restoration apprenticeship in a nearby town, but learning about Austin Sevens at the weekends. He owns a Box Saloon, a Super Accessories Special which he is restoring and drives a Triumph TR7. A dab-hand at rebuilding carburrettors, he is being kept busy at Oxfordshire Sevens.

Key Suppliers and Services

David Cochrane

A7 Components

Supplier of a wide range of good quality spares.

Martin Prior

Martin Prior & Son's Motor Works

Supplier of woodwork for Austin Sevens

Woolies

Woolies

Upholstery and trimming supplies

Matt Kelly

Coast Racing Services

Vapour and sand blasting of components

Jamie Rogerson

The Seven Workshop

Supplier of a wide range of good quality spares.

Simon Laxton

7Trimming

Vehicle upholsterers

Thatch

EMS

01296 655885

High quality engine reconditioning and engineering services