The Escort was the first pan-European Ford car (the Transit came before), which meant the beginning of the end of those strange, unfamiliar (to us Brits) German market cars… Originally designed as the new Anglia, the Euro-friendly Escort…
PART FIVE : Enter THE MAN FROM Chloride On the day Michael Edwardes became British Leyland Chairman, 1 November 1977, some 1500 workers at Triumph, Speke Number Two, walked out only a few hours after they had resumed work.
During the recent National Metro and Mini Show at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon I happened to stumble across the last Austin Maxi built, assembled at
I’m finding myself with a bit of a hankering for a Ford Mondeo at the moment. I guess it’s all the talk about the current model, which shuffled off this