Morris Mini-Minor Size:Large: 7 x 5in View of Lothbury Court

View of Lothbury Court

The scene is surveyed by an anxious prospective customer standing in the doorway

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

13th April 1974

Morris Mini-Minor Size:Large: 7 x 5in View of Lothbury CourtMorris 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