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Re: Old photos
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:10 pm
by Classiccars
I think a lowlight has some charm over the later models but they are nice as well.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:10 pm
by XWL61
TWL is an Oxford CBC registration, the series starting in February 1953 and finishing in April 1953. Obviously all the factory cars had Oxford registrations. I have not come across TWL 77 before.
DO 1076 is not a real registration number. Pictures of many of the prototype BMC cars have a DO 'registration' ( see pics in Skilleter for example). I dont know if DO stands for Drawing Office??
Andy
Re: Old photos
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:11 pm
by svenedin
Thanks for posting. I do like the "proper" tourer without back windows.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:45 am
by firedrake1942
If yiu like old photos of Minors 'in their natural habitat' as opposed to sitting on a grass field, although there are a few of them too, then this is the FB page, ostensibly of a local branch in Essex. By my calculation there are thousands of images of Minors from very early to very late.
https://www.facebook.com/uttlesfordmorr ... cale=en_GB
Re: Old photos
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:44 am
by Classiccars
Will have a look thank you.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 5:47 pm
by ManyMinors
XWL61 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:10 pm
TWL is an Oxford CBC registration, the series starting in February 1953 and finishing in April 1953. Obviously all the factory cars had Oxford registrations. I have not come across TWL 77 before.
DO 1076 is not a real registration number. Pictures of many of the prototype BMC cars have a DO 'registration' ( see pics in Skilleter for example). I dont know if DO stands for Drawing Office??
Andy
DO did indeed stand for Drawing Office. DO1076 was the reference given to the Minor 1000 prototype cars of which 3 were built in 1956 prior to production and launch in October of that year. All 3 were given unique EX reference numbers from the Experimental Dept. Only one is known to have survived. Most prototype cars were scrapped by the factory.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:02 pm
by POMMReg
1081 for Commercials
Re: Old photos
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:18 pm
by myoldjalopy
Classiccars wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:10 pm
I think a lowlight has some charm over the later models but they are nice as well.
Yes, they are very neat and pretty, although the later models are much better known by the general public and much-loved as well.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:59 pm
by Cam
Thank you for posting those. Very nice indeed.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:41 am
by Mervin
Off topic, but it's good to see you are still around Cam. I think I was originally a board member before your joining date. That was using a different username (sailor?) which lapsed because I didn't post anything for a time.
Re: Old photos
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:53 pm
by jagnut66
Two more that I spotted, these are on eBay, so I've included a link below the picture, in case someone recognises the car or the man beside it.
The proud owner with his new car I wonder?
Does anyone recognise the wall or church(?) in the background?
Best wishes,
Mike.
- Morris Minor Series II dated 1955.jpg (243.17 KiB) Viewed 4179 times
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224554445039 ... R5jH94KZZQ