Just a nice period picture

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A modern 'Period' picture...
Ian Curley battling with Grant Williams’ Jag for the lead at Brands Hatch recently.
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SMOKE GREY wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:17 pm It’s an early smoke grey Morris 997 road test/PR car. It is wearing Austin badges and also had a right hand tank. It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up.
"It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up."

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richardACS wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:42 pm
SMOKE GREY wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:17 pm It’s an early smoke grey Morris 997 road test/PR car. It is wearing Austin badges and also had a right hand tank. It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up.
"It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up."

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Couple more photos...the reg is an Oxford series used between Jul ‘61 and Mar ‘62.
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Front L to R: Gill Jones (Chief Experimental Officer and head of safety development), Benny James (Vehicle Proving),
The two men at the rear are Alan (The Pipe) Garrard and Pat Layton.
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What a lovely peice of history - if this was today I doubt Benny James would be wearing a tie :lol: and a little suprised the other 3 are not... would they have allowed Pat Leyton to have smoked a cigarette during the attempt?

Look how high the seat belt is mounted, which they don't seem to be wearing - but I think back in the day seat belts were not a preferred option as they felt to be thrown clear might be the better option...
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Bristol in the '60s...
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Early Mini on family holiday in France in the 1960's. (Reg: WKY 75)
(from an old cine film recently shown on the Talking Pictures TV channel series "The Footage Detectives").
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Taken sixty years ago today - at Bridego Bridge, north of Cheddington on the West Coast mainline, a few after after the Glasgow to Euston mail train was robbed, the Mini belonged to one of the police officers sent out to the scene...

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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.
Interesting, thanks ;)
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Not bad for an early Mini 1000.
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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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