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Northampton St.John's station, July 1965...

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Hinksey Yard, just south of Oxford, 1959 / 60...

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Found this on internet.
Would be great to know more about this one .No info on the photo. One of our forum members has a Fiesta Yellow Morris with 88 on the end of the registration , the first owner was from Kendal.
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WMU 211G wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:05 pm LONDON e28f_z.jpg
Chances are, that is EPR165D - a factory black Mini Minor supplied by S&A. For some reason it was given a Dorset registration. Or more likely it had a private registration and ended up with a Dorset one when it was removed.
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Costafortune wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:55 pm
WMU 211G wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:05 pm LONDON e28f_z.jpg
Chances are, that is EPR165D - a factory black Mini Minor supplied by S&A. For some reason it was given a Dorset registration. Or more likely it had a private registration and ended up with a Dorset one when it was removed.
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Not bad for an early Mini 1000.
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1987 Austin Rover Dealer in Bonn
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MG 1100 and a mini traveller , Doncaster B reg
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r.tec wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:48 pm 1987 Austin Rover Dealer in Bonn
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Yes in Germany it was called Mini Masters, in the rest of the selling countries it was called Advantage. This because of the Germans couldn't pronounce Advantage 😄.
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UHR850 wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 2:59 pm
r.tec wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:48 pm 1987 Austin Rover Dealer in Bonn
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Yes in Germany it was called Mini Masters, in the rest of the selling countries it was called Advantage. This because of the Germans couldn't pronounce Advantage 😄.
Yes, you're right. "Advantage" comes a little bit hard over our tongues whereas "Master" has already been adopted and is easier for us. The French "avantage" is much easier but would not have suited the Mini. Well, because of Boris we should be well accustomed to the terminology of the world of tennis, but it is like it is. Why the hell did they send him over here again? We were glad having got rid of him. Thankfully the Brits kept the other Boris within their frontiers and did not send him over, too!
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r.tec wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:52 pm
UHR850 wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 2:59 pm
r.tec wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:48 pm 1987 Austin Rover Dealer in Bonn
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Yes in Germany it was called Mini Masters, in the rest of the selling countries it was called Advantage. This because of the Germans couldn't pronounce Advantage 😄.
Yes, you're right. "Advantage" comes a little bit hard over our tongues whereas "Master" has already been adopted and is easier for us. The French "avantage" is much easier but would not have suited the Mini. Well, because of Boris we should be well accustomed to the terminology of the world of tennis, but it is like it is. Why the hell did they send him over here again? We were glad having got rid of him. Thankfully the Brits kept the other Boris within their frontiers and did not send him over, too!
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Nice early Mk1 Austin Cooper behind Brian Redman's Lola T70 at Oulton Park in the '60s...

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Freshly acquired race car at home at the parent's villa in Vienna. Not yet finished he calls it a day, taking his portable receiver back in.
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Good old Niki.


From pistonheads, a '72 Mk3 pictured in the '80s, are the wheels Exactons...?

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'85 at a round of the VLN I saw this ugly Mini parked at the road. From the doors, the grill and the Carello headlights this might once have been a beautiful Innocenti.
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The Parade at Leamington Spa...

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BMC detector van... did they ever use Minivans as well...?

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It was always said that these 'detector' vans were a pure fallacy. They 'worked' by simply going to the address of the non licence holders inm the arera anc knocking on the door and telling the occupier that the TV was on. Thus, detecting an offence.

The courts were in a quandry....... If the occupier said that the TV WASN'T on, they couldn't convict! The detection 'stuff' in the van was incapable of doing anything - except setting the van person up for perjury.
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