Making of the Cooper Engines with Eddie Maher

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"Most people have heard about the great and famous historical drivers/tuners of Minis and Healey’s Sprites plus the Cooper brand of the past, but very few people realise or know who was “instrumental in powering their machines“. The main years of the A series and Mini engine development and research for power was from 1959 to 1964 and then progression of engine reliability and performance to 1970 until the A plus engine was introduced in 1980. So this is basically Keith Dodd's (of Minispares) story and research about Eddie Maher (see link below) and not forgetting his close team of work mates. Eddie retired in 1975 nearly 50 years ago, so this is Keith's homage of a true legend of the Mini tuning world who he did not want forgotten, with help from his son Eddy and others on his families photographs and lifeline."

Making of the Cooper Engines with Eddie Maher (by Keith Dodd - August 12th 2024) :-
https://www.minispares.com/blog/2024/08 ... die-maher/


Eddie Maher (wearing glasses) and the Engine Branch manager Jack Lowe

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LHD 997 Cooper

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Morris Engines transformed the A Series from the gutless, fragile 803 pile of sh*t into the superb 948. They pretty much redesigned the whole thing.