Mini
$22.48
- Paperback
56 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2013
Summary
The Mini, now an emblem of the Swinging Sixties, was in fact the product of an age of austerity and shortage, a simple design intended to make motoring more accessible and affordable for the average family.
Ironically, it would become something very different: a modern, classless style icon that appealed across the boundaries of social status, age and gender and lent its name to everything from fashion to furniture.
Using illustrations from the archives of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780747812555 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0747812551 |
| Author: | Gillian Bardsley |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Shire Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 56 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 4mm x 148mm x 208mm |
| Series: | Shire Library |
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Gillian Bardsley
Gillian Bardsley is a historian with a special interest in the social consequences of the rise and fall of the motor industry in Britain. She is the author of ‘Issigonis, the Official Biography’ and has also written books about the Longbridge and Cowley factories and the craft of coachbuilding. As the Archivist of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust she has contributed to many programmes and articles on TV, radio and in the press.
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