Old Period Ads

[mab01uk]

Some nice old Mini ads from this large online collection:
http://www.minipassionmini.50megs.com/p ... sement.htm

[KA2S4]

Great ad's thanks for the link.

Did the Morris Super not come with corner bars?

J

[mk1]

Did the Morris Super not come with corner bars?

Well spotted! It certainly did. They must have done the artwork before they decided on the final spec.

[FCV.66]

The bumper corner bars on the very first few Morris Super Minis and Morris Coopers were fitted after dispatch to the dealer. Strangely, as the Austin seemed to have them fitted. Note early pictures of Morris Cooper road tests and you will often see the cars without the bars.
Garry.

[814CWE]

just a useless nugget of info...


as far as us super fanatics know,none of the pre launch supers survived in austin or morris form.

[KA2S4]

An oil gauge and... an ammeter???

[FCV.66]

The early Morris Super sales brochure shows the oval dash with a finish in wood, similar to a Wolseley Hornet and with white gauges which include an ammeter. To my knowledge this was never fitted to a production car. Again the Austin brochure is different, it shows the usual black oval dash with black-faced instruments and with temp gauge instead of ammeter.
Garry.

[Pete]

As Garry says some of the early Cooper press shots don't show any corner bars (though MFC did gain an extra tank).....



Nor on the Super.....




Reading that ad again you can believe that the push essentially by BMC was on the Super as a new luxury Mini and the Cooper as a 'special' that they thought wouldn't sell. Both were soon in competition with the Hornet/Elf, a model too many ?

[FCV.66]

My theory exactly Pete!

G.

[mab01uk]

[Pete]

A mate of my son's once called a Mini in which we were travelling 'a bit gay' once, not sure he meant 'jolly' though !!

(little shit ! )

Hank Marvin looks happy with his anyway....

[Old English White]

Haha, words had different meanings then. Is anyone else old enough to remember the Hillman Minx being marketed with an optional "Gay Look" colour scheme? .

Life's hard enough for car salesman nowadays as it is - imagine having to sell THAT as a concept!

[Pete]

Don't think you'd get away with this now either.....

[mab01uk]

[zbarbera]

A mate of my son's once called a Mini in which we were travelling 'a bit gay' once, not sure he meant 'jolly' though !!

(little shit ! )

Hank Marvin looks happy with his anyway....

A friend and I were out in my father's 2008 Elise one day, with my dog (a Boston Terrier) and he pointed out that people were probably looking at us saying look at the 2 gay guys, in their gay car with their gay dog.

[Peter Laidler]

I see that you come from BOXFORD Zbarbera. Is that BOXFORD where all the lathes and milling machines were made? When I was an engineering apprentice in the early 60's, most of our lathes and millers were Boxfords as I rememjber and were all US LEND-LEASE wartime stuff. But after years of total abuse by us apprentices, they were still in good order

[zbarbera]

I see that you come from BOXFORD Zbarbera. Is that BOXFORD where all the lathes and milling machines were made? When I was an engineering apprentice in the early 60's, most of our lathes and millers were Boxfords as I rememjber and were all US LEND-LEASE wartime stuff. But after years of total abuse by us apprentices, they were still in good order

Can't be. The Boxford I live in is very rural. We have lots of trees, swamps and horses and very few businesses. A couple of general stores. One for the East Village and one for the West Village. A few farm stands, a pizza place, a daycare and a vet. Nearly no commercial zoning and a bylaw that states that every family home must sit on at least 2 acres of land (which shuts out condos and apartments). Yet we're less than 25 miles from Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxford,_Massachusetts

And, fun fact. The woman who took the first British soldier prisoner during the American Revolution is buried around the corner from me.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132 ... a-spofford

[rich@minispares.com]

And, fun fact. The woman who took the first British soldier prisoner during the American Revolution is buried around the corner from me.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132 ... a-spofford

admit it, who doesn't want to be pulled to the ground by a physically imposing women......

[Peter Laidler]

I should have looked it up before I asked!!! But US wartime Boxford machine tools in the UK are/were as common as Colchesters. Everyone learned on one!

[surfblue63]

Boxford Lathes were made in the UK at the Box Tree Mills, Wheatley, Halifax.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/