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The split screen; the clunky orange indicators; the pootling exhaust note…all quaint characteristics of the Morris Minor or Morris 1000. Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, this bulbous little creation was also Britain's answer to the Beetle. In 2008 it is 60 years old, and now Martin Wainwright (who proposed over the gear stick of a Morris Minor) gives us a quirky and fascinating history. He meets the Bath man who pioneered restoring Morris Minors back in the 1970s; he ponders their bonnets' alarming habit of gaping open at speed; he catalogues variants of the marquee like the Traveler, the Million, and the convertible; and he waxes lyrical over a photo exhibition devoted to abandoned Morris Minors on the West Coast of Ireland.
In the grand tradition of The Bus We Loved, here is the story of a triumph of British engineering and a lovable little runabout.
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Martin Wainwright is the Northern Editor of The Guardian. He lives in Leeds.
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