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MIN013   Almond Green/White Mini Car
 

 MIN013 Almond Green/White Mini Car - click here for hi-res

                                                               1:43 Scale
 

 
  By the mid-1950s, with Britain starting to recover from the Second World War, fuel was in short supply and petrol rationing was reintroduced. While sales of big cars slumped, there was a boom in more economical vehicles. The British Motor Corporation charged Alec Issigonis with designing something that would actually look like a car, hold four adults, and be small and economical. His design was a revolutionary space-saving front-wheel-drive that for the first time mounted the engine transversely. Virtually all small front-wheel-drive cars that followed employed a similar configuration. First produced in 1959, the Mini soon became Britain’s most popular car, enjoying its heyday in the Swinging Sixties.

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