Alec Issigonis gave the world the 'Mini' for £500 everybody could have one. The Bubble car was popular at the time but could only carry one passenger. The Mini could carry three passengers providing you were only going on short journeys. Any thing over ten miles meant frequent stops to allow people to stretch their legs. Too many rum babas could cause permanent bone damage to mini passengers.

The Mini. £350 plus purchase tax £146 19s 2d

To keep teenagers off the road, their average wage was £8 for boys, £6 for girls.

Alec Issigonis the designer of the Mini. Not only did he design that car, but he was also responsible for the introduction into the English language of the prefix Mini-. Meaning anything smaller than the last one.

Oh Yeh!! This is supposed to show what can be carried. The child and the two dogs had to be eased in with a shoe horn and a tyre lever.

The first stretch of the M1 motor way was opened by Earnest Marples the Transport Minister. The first car to hog the middle lane was the car above.