850 badge - unknown

[sandro_f]

Hi guys,


Can someone please help me identify this badge?

Thanks in advance

[Tim]

According to the somerford Mini website.
"14A7599 - Badge, rear door, '850' (Alternative for Austin models in some non-UK markets) Qty required for car: 1"

Tim

[mk1]

Correct, Its a Mini 850 "Export" badge.

When the MK1 was exported as an Austin 850 it wore one of those badges on the boot lid.

[Romag]

Hi Sandro,

This badge is pretty common here in Switzerland.

Every MK1 Austin Mini is equipped with this 850 badge, I have quite a few of them in stock.

Cheers, Glen

[36inter]

Love the skinny cross ply's in the picture.

[ricardo]

Only Austins had that badge. Morrises had this one:



Sandro, that's the normal boot badge for the late mk1 Austin 850's here in Portugal.

[sandro_f]

Thank you all for the explanation
A very quick and effective lesson on the 850 badge!

@Ricardo, I suspected it, but couldn't find any pictures to prove it

[618AOG]

I recall seeing a couple of RHD early-mid seventies Mark 111 Minis in the UK with an Austin or Morris badge above the MINI 1000 boot badge - they looked the same as the Austin/Morris badges fitted to Allegos and Marinas.

[UHR850]

The MORRIS-850 badge was used in the Netherlands as well on the early ones.

[ricardo]

The Morris_850 badge was used here in Portugal on early cars too, but I believe the Austin 850 was only introduced later as early cars had the Seven badge.

[Phil Perfect]

I need one of those 850 badges for my new project. Would anybody want to sell me one at a decent price

[Minimogul]

Looking for this Exact 850 badge for my 63 . I need one in excellent condition. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.... Gunnar in seattle wa USA

[mab01uk]

Love the skinny cross ply's in the picture.

The prototypes were even more skinny than those.......

"Issigonis had approached Dunlop, as he had done with the Minor, to develop a new type of tyre that would sit on a wheel that was 4.20 x 10in – almost wheelbarrow dimensions – and Dunlop managed to develop a suitable tyre for the car. The tyres that finally appeared on the Mini were 5.20in in width, rather wider than the prototypes’ 4.80in tyres, and it was as a direct result of the car’s unexpectedly good performance that this change was made."
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/the-car ... ry-part-1/

[ronie]

My Beach car came with one of these badges as well.

[Vegard]

Looking for this Exact 850 badge for my 63 . I need one in excellent condition. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.... Gunnar in seattle wa USA

Hi Gunnar. That sure sounded Scandinavian I think I might have such a badge for you.

My 62:

http://home.online.no/~lyngset/62austin ... =&pExPic=0;

[cheleker]

Sandro, I know of someone here in The States that is working on an early Austin and is looking for that badge. Would you be interested in selling it?

[johnsimister]

The mother of a school friend of mine in the early 1960s had a red Austin which had the Austin 850 badges. It seemed to be, as far as I can remember, a regular UK-type car with nothing unusual about it at all otherwise. It seemed to have been built between when Sevens stopped and Minis started. Or maybe it was mis-badged at the factory. Does anyone know of any others that escaped into the domestic market?

John

[Vegard]

I recall seeing a couple of RHD early-mid seventies Mark 111 Minis in the UK with an Austin or Morris badge above the MINI 1000 boot badge - they looked the same as the Austin/Morris badges fitted to Allegos and Marinas.

Norwegian cars had this until 74ish if I recall correctly.

[Craig]

Hello Gunnar ! I think I may have one of those badges .
Seen them on quite a few Canadian Mki minis
I will check when I get back from Sema next week
Cheers craig

[814CWE]

a lot of channel island cars had these badges and lots ended up bk here on the used car market in the 60s