Max’s Mini
basil | 3/2/2005 | 9:27 amMax’s motors.
We used to make thousands of subframes at Rubery Owen. I drove a prototype home in 1958 in a blinding snow storm from Walsall to Church Lane Lower Broadheath, Worcester. All the traffic was stationary and I just roller skated home. When I eventually reached Roslyn I parked up tight against the right hand garage door inside a giant snow pile. Jocelyn couldn’t see me. I took her for a ride around Peachley Lane and she said “Yes please I’ll keep it” She had to wait until 1960 for a van which had the floor cut out to take a children’s bench seat.Wish I had persuaded Issigonis to let me have his steam mini. My best car was a Volvo Amazon 122s blue and white,one of the first in England. I did 80,000 miles one year from the north of Sweden to southern Germany France and Spain exporting our components.
Max Sinclair
Amazon in the Snow.
Grimley 1963, more snow than Sweden for my Volvo. Max.
Worcester Ford Zephyr.
The flat ugly bonnet on Max’s MK. 4 Zephyr had it’s uses.
