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Austin was founder of the Austin Motor Company in 1905

Italian racing driver Alberto Ascari in action during the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit

by Jesse Hurlbut

Segrave was also a successful racing driver

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian Product:Postcard Austin was founder of theGeorge Bernard Shaw (1856 1950) Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. The author of such well known works as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. A committed socialist, he also wrote numerous pamphlets on social and political issues, many of them published by the Fabian society. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1893).