Politicians in Minis....
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"First off are two images of Barbara Castle, circa 1968, with BMC works driver Paddy Hopkirk and Mini Cooper 1275S JMO 969D.
It is obviously a PR exercise to promote the use of seatbelts by motorists."
"The image shown below is of John Peyton, (Minister of Transport from 1970 to 1974 in Edward Heath’s Conservative government) in a Mini with Lord Stokes, the chairman of British Leyland. This was taken on October 25th 1972 at the London Motor Show and the occasion was the production of the three millionth Mini. The car, which conveniently happened to be a top of the range 1275GT, was rushed from Longbridge down to London for the Minister to pose in. Lord Stokes told the press: ‘Looking around the show you can see foreign manufacturers have copied our small car design. It won’t take us 13 years to build the next three million — as we fully intend to do.’ In fact it took around another 30 years to build the six millionth Mini, and that was a product of BMW’s Cowley plant Oxford."
"Next up is Denis Healey pictured in a Mini (below) in 1980, after he had left office as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In that role he had to find the cash to prop up British Leyland as Tony Benn’s dream of a state owned, worker controlled motor manufacturer turned into a nightmare."
URX550G Works Cooper.
