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Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:32 am
by UHR850
Nick W wrote:put these up before but worth another look.
66ish 998 cooper taken in the late 60s
Lovely pictures from the dashboard with the leather Springall steeringwheel. There is also a Britax sticker on the dash, same one as on the wooden one on the forums dashboard question ?
Kees
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:09 pm
by iain1967s
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:40 am
by mab01uk
The Exhibition Centre, Longbridge 1962.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:04 am
by Peter Laidler
It looks like Sir Alec is trying to sell one to Reggie Kray but Reggie, with his finger pointing is trying to 'negotiate' a bigger discount........
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:57 am
by surfblue63
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 11:11 am
by Peter Laidler
Yes............ VERY true!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:34 pm
by UHR850
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:09 pm
by WMU 211G
Les Leston interviewing Jackie Oliver at Brands Hatch...
LL & Jackie O.jpg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:01 pm
by Pete
Now that is a comb-over!
Here's an interesting photo I found at the NEC of the Goodwood all-Mini race for journalists in September 1960 at the 43rd Members Meeting which blow a few well peddled myths out of the water!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:17 pm
by surfblue63
Keeping with the Yardley BRM theme, I wonder if Mr Oliver ever took a ride in this
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:25 am
by 66Traveller
Now that is cool!
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:30 am
by 66Traveller
Pete wrote:Now that is a comb-over!
Here's an interesting photo I found at the NEC of the Goodwood all-Mini race for journalists in September 1960 at the 43rd Members Meeting which blow a few well peddled myths out of the water!
You mean this presumably...
https://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1959-john-b ... mini-minor
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:41 am
by UHR850
Downton Tuned Targa Cooper
Kees
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:00 pm
by UHR850
URX550G Works Cooper.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:35 pm
by roymck
Donald Campbell’s Mini Cooper , was it a Radford? Checked out the reg number not on DVLA web site
171E1072-01A6-4214-8C55-3D536AE659DD.jpeg
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:59 pm
by mab01uk
roymck wrote:Donald Campbell’s Mini Cooper , was it a Radford? Checked out the reg number not on DVLA web site
Some more photos and info on its sad ending in link below......
Donald Campbell Radford - Mystery Solved:-
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15695
Donald Campbell's driveway:-
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18320&p=151283
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:09 am
by mab01uk
Politicians in Minis....
https://www.aronline.co.uk/opinion/a-li ... 9-edition/
"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."
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:48 pm
by Pete
Lucky escape for Paddy on the '66 Circuit of Ireland. The car was written off and the number plate never appeared again until 1986 when it was applied for, conveniently just after the DVLC torched all their old records of scrapped cars
, one of many scrapped works Mini number plates that reappeared from the scrapyard in the sky soon after this one.
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 1:15 pm
by goff
mab01uk wrote:Politicians in Minis....
https://www.aronline.co.uk/opinion/a-li ... 9-edition/
"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."
Scraping bottom the barrel now
"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."
Re: Just a nice period picture
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:08 pm
by UHR850
Big man, small car.
