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MINI AND VARIED

MINI COUNTRYMAN/TRAVELLER (1960-1969)

t was almost inevitable that an estate car would be derived from the Mini van, designed just before the original saloon’s public launch on an extended wheelbase version of the platform. With the addition of a rear bench seat and sliding glass rear windows the Austin Seven Countryman and Morris Mini Traveller duly arrived in mid-1960. Oddly for a man usually so famous for his dedication to minimalism, Alec Issigonis insisted that the estates have

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