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Morris Minor: The Biography: Sixty Years of Britain's Favourite Car
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The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note… just some of the much-loved characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis back in 1948, in a sense it was Britain’s answer to the Beetle – a bulbous little creation that was also Britain’s first mass-appeal car. Between then and 1972 when production belatedly ceased some 1.6 million were built. There were variants like the Morris Traveller (timber-framed estate car) and the Morris Million (painted pink), while the convertible was another popular choice. For thousands of ‘newly-marrieds’, or penurious students, it was their first car. It was also the kind of car in which the district nurse did her rounds.
In 2008, it is 60 years old, and Martin Wainwright (who proposed to his wife over the gear stick of a Morris Minor) gives us a quirky and fascinating history of this quintessentially British car. You’ll find everyt
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Morris Minor: The Biography - 60 Years of Britain's Favourite Car - Hardcover
Morris Minor: The Biography - 60 Years of Britain's Favourite Car
Martin Wainwright
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The split screen, the indicators poking up like perspex orange fingers, the notoriously rust-prone floors, the pootling exhaust note.just some of the much-loved characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis back in 1948, in a sense it was Britain's answer to the Beetle - a bulbous little creation that was also Britain's first mass-appeal car. Between then and 1972 when production belatedly ceased some 1.6 million were built. There were variants like the Morris Traveller (timber-framed estate car) and the Morris Million (painted pink), while the convertible was another popular choice. For thousands of 'newly-marrieds', or penurious students, it was their first car. It was also the kind of car in which the district nurse di
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Morris Minor
It starts off with the author's personal involvement with the marque which felt somewhat self-indulgent and a little cheesy. That is followed by an extremely pointless excursion where the author attempted to spot Minors on the road to see if they are still being driven. A quick search on the internet would surely have provided more useful information but instead the reader is subjected to passages which read like: 'I was driving along the A69 and on the turnoff to Birmingham I was sure that I had spotted a cream and white traveller'. Riveting stuff, indeed.
Thankfully after this dull beginning things pick up a lot when it moves on to the history of how the car was first created by designer Alec Issigonis and proved to be an immediate hit with press and public at the 1948 motor show.
Unfortunately this section was all too brief and the author moves on to interviewing Minor owners, car salesman and r
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