Photographs of pre-production prototypes and various promotional photographs of the launch. Some of the photographs used by kind permissions of mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk

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A twin cylinder two stroke engine was developed from a chopped in half "A" seires Austin A35 engine.
This was tried out in an A35 car in hope it would be used in the Mini eventually, possibly as a space saving initiative.
Needless to say it didn't go into production.

Read more about this engine here.

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The Mini, the brainchild of:

"Sir Alec Issigonis"

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Various publicity leaflets etc of the launch of the Mini.

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Although these two photographs appear in the "Publicity Material" gallery, we thought it worth mentioning the link between the two shots.

Note even though the photographs are in black and white, it is obvious that they are different cars, a lighter colour and a darker colour. They have the same registration number on the number plate, how odd! Obviously press cars, but was BMC trying to save on road tax?

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