PUPILS got a surprise when a 1930s Austin Seven visited St Andrew’s School as part of its ‘Let’s get Moving’ topic.

The car was small and made for the average working family, with more than 290,000 manufactured between 1922 and 1939.

The car that visited St Andrew’s was first registered in Shropshire, which is also the home of Merrythought English teddy bears, so the car was named ‘Merrythought’. The children certainly spotted the two bears peeping out of the car.

A St Andrew’s spokesman said: “It was so kind of Phil Dunford to get his car out of hibernation especially to show it to the children.”