Before WWII, the company which became Jaguar was called Swallow Sidecars and it had diversified into making special bodies for cars, most notably for Austin Sevens. A Swallow body added about 15% to the cost of an Austin Seven, but was worth much more in street cred. In the 2018 movie, “Mary Poppins Returns” there is a standard Austin parked near the home of the Banks family but as the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious one flies off at the end, the Seven has a Swallow…
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