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The Morris Minor was not developed in the main drawing office at Cowley, but in a little self contained workshop in an isolated corner of the factory with a small body shop attached. It was developed without the confidence of the senior management of the company and probably without Lord Nuffield (William Morris) being aware of its development.
The car was originally designed to have a flat-four side-valve water cooled engine. The engine was to have cylinder barrels that could be readily removed - somewhat on the lines of a certain German car! Experimental engines were built by Morris Engines of Coventry and fitted to some of the prototype cars but were never fitted to production car. The first prototype was called the Mosquito and was completed on the 1st September 1943 and was coded EX/SX/86
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Richard Sumnall - Rant about People at Petrol Stations
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Rant: When I'm sat in the queue for a petrol station and the user in front is at the back pump and the vehicle in front has left, why oh why do they walk away from their car once they have filled and go to pay?
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Rants about British Drivers
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I am so ashamed of British Driving Skills that this page will hopefully encourage people to DRIVE their cars and not POINT them in a direction. With the roads filling up with more and more cars, it is important that we drive properly.
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The Ford Cortina was a medium sized car sold by Ford of Britain. The Cortina was produced in five generations (Mark I through Mark V-though officially the last one was the Cortina 1980) from 1962 until 1982, when it was replaced by the Ford Sierra. From 1970 it was almost identical to the German-market Ford Taunus (they were built on the same platform) which was originally a different car model; this was part of a Ford attempt to unify its European operations.
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