Morris Mini-Minor Size:Large: 7 x 5in Scene of the presentation ceremony

Scene of the presentation ceremony at the opening of Holborn Viaduct by Queen Victoria

and also the first all-British entry in a foreign road race

13th April 1974

Plate II of Cries of London

Morris Mini-Minor Size:Large: 7 x 5in Scene of the presentation ceremonyMorris Mini Minor, Guildford, Surrey, 1961. BR Greaves demonstrates a handbrake turn at the Guidford Motor Club's Spring Driving Tests. In 1957 BMC commissioned Alec Issigonis to design a new small car, following his success with the Morris Minor. Popularly known as the Mini, this innovative model popularised many design features still common today. Driving the front wheels, its transverse mounted engine, with the gearbox beneath, removed the space