Building a baby Austin7 MK1 Mini - PART 2/2, BMC, Longbridge

PART 2 - A very early BMC film of the original Mini being built from Start to finish at the Austin Factory, Longbridge - happy times. Sadly, most of the factory has recently been demolished. The Mini production assembly remained virtually unchanged for 40 years

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Mini
• British
• Leyland
• Longbridge
• Build
• Austin
• Morris
• Auto
• BMC

[Gingersid56]

Lovely piece of old footage!

[1337ASM]

nar u gotta look gd when making a mini

[Isochest]

With Gormless Gideon Osborne the Bilderberg Baldric we haven't got a cat in hell's chance. He sings the Neocon Hymn. He gave the crossrail contract to Siemens on a plate instead of Bombadier. Means the trains will be built in Krefeld, Deutschland instead of Derby. Better for the Taxpayer. Yeah paying for dole with less tax coming in. El Camarón & Gideon are Little Dicks,

[ratty383]

incredible, I must have missed the rust protection section, Or perhaps there wasn't any !

[theessejway]

notice how men are building and ladies are doing the apolstrie

[CDMVette]

Shame they didn't show the addition of the magical harness smoke that makes all the electricals work.

[carzmine9]

Brilliant for the time of the century !!!!!!

[grahamkeithtodd]

amazing at one time the British led the world innovation and tech and now? we are crap...

hell when this car came out the German firm BMW where going down the drain and even M-Benz where in a bit of trouble... now? BMC(or British Leyland/Austin Rover/Rover) are history..makes you want to spit!

[38DDBOOBS]

i wonder what would they say if the seen the mini now after all the years

[OzzInter]

Here in Australia we had the "Morris 850" version rather than the "Austin Se7en" version of the original Mini.

The Austin version had a grille which gave it a family resemblence to the larger Austin models of the era.

Very interesting old footage, thanks for sharing!

[OzzInter]

@PrisonerJohnDrake2

The current BMW Mini has a diesel version planned.

Leyland actually developed a diesel engine based on the BMC A Series engine.

It was used in the Leyland Mini tractor, but never used in cars.

[PrisonerJohnDrake2]

@taffy1967 ... A representative British-made engine should be a very reliable high-efficiency Diesel that can run on pure vegetable oil. Currently what British company makes one?