1100/1300 international variations
International variations : Austin Victoria Mk2
Could the Mk2 version have saved Authi? Victoria Mk2 article written by Graham Arnold with reference to messages contributed by members of the Spanish Authi chat forum Updated, 8 January 2013 For some time now there has been evidence, in particular on the Spanish Authi chat forum, that Mk2 versions of the Austin Victoria were [...]
January 8, 2013
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Concepts and prototypes : Innocenti IM3/I4/I5 facelift
Keith Adams It’s often been said that Innocenti had the unswerving knack of being able to take a BMC car and make it look just a little bit more appealing. The Austin A40 transformed by the Italians into the fully hatchbacked Combinata, and the already pretty 1100/1300 was tweaked to become the better-looking and more [...]
January 1, 2013
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Events : LEJoG in a Princess – day one
Finally, our AROnline team’s adventure started officially when we were flagged off at Land’s End. Words and Photographs: Alexander Boucke Please excuse these grainy mobile phone pictures, but they are currently the only way I can show you the impression 13 ADO16s leave when lined up in front of the Land’s End hotel. The international [...]
August 6, 2012
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Around the world : Yugoslavia
Final assembly of CKD Austin 1300s began at a plant in Novo Mesto during 1969, with the cars arriving from Longbridge almost complete; indeed, the chassis plates of these models identified them as having come from Longbridge Yugoslav 1100s IN 1967 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, IMV (Industrija Motornih Vozil – Industry of Motor Vehicles) signed [...]
October 2, 2011
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Austin de Luxe
The 1-litre ADO16 In 1974, just as the ADO16 was preparing to face its final curtain in the UK, Authi introduced a new 998cc version of the standard-bodied car, known simply as the Austin de Luxe. The specifications make interesting reading – with 55bhp on tap, it would have been likely to out-perform a standard [...]
October 2, 2011
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Authi ADO16s (pre-Victoria)
Prior to the launch of the Austin Victoria in 1972, Authi built a range of standard-bodied ADO16 models from 1966 onwards. Authi MG-S 1300 ALL good things travel well, including the ADO16. Because of tough restrictions on cars imported into Spain, BMC knew that the only way into this market was to set-up a local [...]
October 2, 2011
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International variations : Austin Victoria
The three-box ADO16, as restyled by Michelotti. IN October 1972, Authi replaced its Morris and MG ADO16 models with the Victoria (Spanish for Victory, so not named after a girl, queen, place or station). There is a rumour that the name was a chosen as a sardonic comment on the similarity of Michelotti’s styling job [...]
October 2, 2011
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International variations : Austin Apache
The Austin Apache was designed by Michelotti in 1970, alongside the almost identical Austin Victoria, and was produced by Leyland South Africa at its Blackheath plant from 1971 until the mid 1970s. Like the Victoria, the Apache is a well-disguised Austin 1300, with extended nose and tails sections grafted on. The centre section is virtually [...]
October 2, 2011
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BMC 11/55
Alongside the standard Austin 1100, South Africa also had an uprated, 55bhp version which was sold in Austin and Wolseley guises. Although this increased power output was equivalent to that produced by the twin-carb 1100s available in the UK, the 11/55 models took a different route to achieving their extra horses, having a single 1½in. [...]
October 2, 2011
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Also known as : BMC 1100/1300
Austin de Luxe Home market name: based on Austin 1100 MkIIINot just a new name, but a new engine too: this Spanish-built model used a 55bhp version of the 998cc A-series engine. Introduced in 1974, it also found its way into the Danish and Greek markets. Austin 11/55 Home market name: based on Austin 1100In [...]
August 28, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Irish variations
Ireland was an interesting market for BMC>Rover, as for a short while, not only were they importers, but they were a CKD assembly operation. Andrew Ryan takes up the story… Austin & Morris had two separate importers/assemblers. For Austin, there was Lincoln & Nolan, which also had the Rover agency and Morris cars were assembled [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : North American variations
MG Sports Sedan / MG Princess Within a month or so of the model’s UK launch, the MG1100 was being exported to the US to be sold as the MG Sports Sedan (perhaps providing inspiration to the Rootes Group, who later lauched the Hillman Imp in America as the Sunbeam Imp Sportsedan). Launched in the [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : New Zealand variations
Production of the ADO16 in New Zealand followed fairly close on the heels of the initial UK launch, and lasted into the early 1970s. AS related by Ian Walker in his article on ‘BMC>Rover in New Zealand’, by the 1960s the franchises for the Austin and Nuffield brands in New Zealand had been consolidated into [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Japanese variations
The Japanese took the ADO16 to their hearts in a big way, leading to a mass exodus of decent examples to Japan in the 1990s. And when the demand for the cars began to outstrip the supply of pukka models, a gaggle of ingenious reproductions began to appear… BACK in the late 1960s/early 1970s, BLMC’s [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Italian variations
The first 1100-based Innocenti – the IM3 – was so-named as it was the third Innocenti-Morris joint venture, following the A40 and 950 Spider. It was launched as a Morris in the spring of 1963, and was joined the following year by a more basic, Austin-badged model. Production of the Morris models ended in 1970, [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Danish variations
Although the ADO16 was never built in Denmark, it was first introduced there within weeks of the UK launch, and remained available in one form or another for around six months after sales in the UK had fizzled out. Here, former BL Denmark dealer Erik Loye tells its story… IN August 1962, shortly after the [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Chilean variations
Read the extraordinary story of how the production of glass fibre Minis and 1100s was instigated in Chile. Story by Dennis Harrison. To octagenarians, Abingdon, the factory home of the MG for half a century, is synonymous with the marque. Few, if any, have heard of another production centre at Arica, a seaport on the [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : Australian variations
IN 1964, around a year-and-a-half after its UK launch, a locally-built (but otherwise fairly standard) version of Morris 1100 was launched in Australia, where it was sold alongside the Mini and Austin A40 Farina. In August 1967 the 1100 was joined by the 1100S, which actually had the 1275cc A-series engine of the UK’s 1300 [...]
July 19, 2011
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BMC 1100/1300 : International variations, Holland
October 23, 2010
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