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Hi guys,


Can someone please help me identify this badge?

Thanks in advance

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

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.

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

Love the skinny cross ply's in the picture.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

36inter wrote: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/

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

Minimogul wrote: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;

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?

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

618AOG wrote: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.

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

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