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GRAHAM ROBSON A COMPLICATED HISTORY

Recently, while wearing my historian’s hat, I have had a great time sorting out just what, where, when and how the complex which BMW now calls Plant Oxford (making MINIs in huge numbers) started life as the Pressed Steel company. As an example, did you know that there was a historical connection on that piece of real estate between the original Hillman Minxes of the 1930s and the Rover 75s of the 1950s, and between the Minis of the 1960s and

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