WELCOME
It just seemed perfect that the issue of Mini Magazine that hits the shelves in the middle of August, almost sixty years to the day that the Mini was revealed to the public, carries the full story of Lars Søe-Jensen's wonderful Morris 131. This Mini is recognised as being the oldest surviving Morris Mini after 621 AOK, and as such, is the oldest production line car. We were thrilled to get the chance to shoot the Morris on the Cowley factory site, where the car was built. Things may well have changed beyond all recognition at the Oxfordshire plant since the Mini was dispatched for Denmark in 1959, but the management and workers at the plant have been delighted to see the Mini back at the works, and are justifiably proud…