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[Old Bob]

Well, actually it's a video clip but worth a quick look on the right hand side of the page here

 

Bob

[minirage]

i was checking out the 'care home reviews' whats funny is the guy gets in plays around with the switches then everyone piles in the pub for few jars i bet the mini was on its roof in a field 3 hours later

[mab01uk]

Great find .......here is another link to the film:

 

Vaux Rolls Out 12 Mini-Minors

On 26^th August 1959 the Morris Mini-Minor was officially launched to the press at the Ministry of Defence testing ground in Chobham. The new car was publicised as “Wizardry on Wheels” and received glowing newspaper reviews, with the Daily Sketch cooing “Some Baby!” By the 1960s the British “People’s Car” was proving a hit with the home market. In 1961 Frank Nicholson, the Chairman of Vaux and Associated Breweries Ltd in Sunderland, which  then owned 800 pubs and clubs in the North East, had an idea for boosting beer sales. He offered 12 new cherry red Minis, sporting customised bumper grilles with a Vaux “V” branding, as prizes for a “Spot the Ball” competition. Entry tickets were free with every 1 shilling’s worth of beer bought in a Vaux pub. Winning customers from the Brandling Arms in Gosforth, Newcastle, and the Lambton Worm near Chester-le-Street, were happy with their prize Minis, although the sales gimmick wasn’t popular with the Association of Pledged Motorists (for reformed drink-drivers) or the RAC.

In 1956 petrol rationing was in force. Car sales plunged. The Suez crisis had created a demand for a small, fuel-efficient family car. Leonard Lord, Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Company (BMC), re-hired maverick designer Alex Issigonis to work on a car for the future of BMC production lines. The result was the iconic Morris Mini-Minor. The new, minimalist car with an ingenious side-ways mounted engine, reputed to have evolved from sketches on a restaurant tablecloth, went on to become the best-selling car in Europe. It was first offered to British drivers for an affordable £496 and was credited with mobilising the British work force at a time when motor vehicles were still for the privileged few. The original Mini achieved cult status in the 1960s, with celebrity owners from the Beatles and Twiggy to Hollywood movie star, Steve McQueen. In 1969 a trio of red, white and blue Mini Cooper S’s used as getaway cars by Michael Caine’s criminal gang were the real stars of the classic British caper movie, The Italian Job.

http://www.nefacalfi...ng-26th-august/

[mk1leg]

I wonder if any are still alive must be worth a bob or two..................