10 times car makers thought again
Those eleventh-hour tweaks
For most of the history of the motor car, there have been examples of last-minute changes to improve a product before it reaches the public – often when tooling is well down the line.
Perhaps the most obvious is the decision by Alec Issigonis to widen the Morris Minor by 4in, at that very stage, resulting in a flat raised section in the bonnet of exactly that width… plus bumpers cut in two and extended with a crude bolted-in fillet. And Austin nearly went down the same route: the two-door Dorset was going to have a body 4in narrower than that of the four-door Devon.
MP goes behind the wheel
Picture: Yanni
FLINDERS MP Greg Hunt was in the driver’s seat during last week’s visit to the Mornington Men’s Shed.
The federal health minister appeared comfortable in the Morris Minor 1000 which members have been restoring over the past three years.
The 50-plus-year-old car was acquired through a member of the Morris Minor Car Club of Victoria for about $500.
Shedders have put in “millions of hours” restoring it, refurbishing worn and rusty parts and replacing the motor so that now it is a fine example of the popular British runabout it was in the 1950s.
2021-01-18T13:12:00+00:00
As part of
Property Week’s annual preview feature we asked some of the industry’s leading lights to list their personal and/or professional resolutions for the new year. This is what they said…
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Head of UK, CC Land
On a personal level, my 2021 resolution is to continue to serve our occupiers and move towards our aspiration of becoming a first-class custodian, giving our communities the environment to attract best in class talent. Furthermore, to help our mixed-use developments at Whiteley’s and Nine Elms take shape and see further progress in 2021.
Lynda Shillaw
The Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal have a whiff of White Mischief about them; undulating happy valleys where white people linger on grand estates thinking of the Old Country, sipping G&Ts at sunset and assembling in resplendent drawing rooms for post prandials after much gossiping over dinner about the neighbouring farmers, the polo and the cricket. The boys all went to Michaelhouse or Hilton, the girls to St Anne’s; everybody knows somebody who knows everyone else, and family roots go deeper than the abundantly rich soil, from farm t0 farm and pretty English town to pretty English town. It’s a Little England in the former colony and, like much of England, is effortlessly beautiful.
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