ROD KER MINI OR ANGLIA?
Almost exactly 60 years ago as I apply digit to keyboard, Earls Court opened its art deco doors to the British International Motor Show of 1959. This promised to be a vintage event, marking the debut of three important mass market cars. Despite ironic government warnings that the public shouldn’t come to a car show in a car for fear of bringing gridlock to Kensington, over half a million attended.
The milestone models were, of course, the Mini Minor, Triumph Herald and Ford Anglia. With the benefit of hindsight, which was the most significant?
