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[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, D.E said:

The desciption under which this one is filed wasn't really helpful, just "Morris factory". Which could be several places, I guess.

The Chassis in the foreground is LHD. Maybe it was in NL or Belguim?  https://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/collectie/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&q=molenaar amersfoort&page=1&sort=order_i_relevantie asc

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[D.E]

14 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

The Chassis in the foreground is LHD. Maybe it was in NL or Belguim?  https://collectie.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/collectie/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&q=molenaar amersfoort&page=1&sort=order_i_relevantie asc

Could be!

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9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

No details 

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3 hours ago, D.E said:

Could be!

I think that is the Dutch Morris importer J.J. Molenaar with a local assembly CKD Morris 1000.

I think the previous Morris pictures are the same place.

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[Metal Guru]

13 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

£1315. That’s an expensive car for 1959 or even earlier. The XJ6 in the previous post was listed as £1797 and that must have been 10 years later. (XJ6 was launched in 1968).

[Andrew353w]

"In five seconds this versatile vehicle can be transformed"...... A somewhat optimistic piece of advertiser's flannel, I expect! As a child my parents had numerous Cortina estates & folding the seats down took a LOT longer than 5 seconds!

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4 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

"In five seconds this versatile vehicle can be transformed"...... A somewhat optimistic piece of advertiser's flannel, I expect! As a child my parents had numerous Cortina estates & folding the seats down took a LOT longer than 5 seconds!

Going by how long it used to take me and the girlfriend to transform her mother's Maxi to a double bed.

I'd say they had time to do Hospital corners on the bed clothing within the five minutes!

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[D.E]

9 hours ago, lesapandre said:

I think that is the Dutch Morris importer J.J. Molenaar with a local assembly CKD Morris 1000.

I think the previous Morris pictures are the same place.

It would have been their location in Amersfoort, then.

[lesapandre]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

£1315. That’s an expensive car for 1959 or even earlier. The XJ6 in the previous post was listed as £1797 and that must have been 10 years later. (XJ6 was launched in 1968).

It's also significantly more than the range-topping A105 saloon at £1109. I wonder if they actually sold any.

The A90/95 range was Austin's first big unibody car - though sales were not stellar overall. Liked to rust too.

The 'it turns into bed' was a marketing obsession of the BLMC sales pitch for the Maxi. The car had many other more important virtues.

[artdjones]

26 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

It's also significantly more than the range-topping A105 saloon at £1109. I wonder if they actually sold any.

The A90/95 range was Austin's first big unibody car - though sales were not stellar overall. Liked to rust too.

The 'it turns into bed' was a marketing obsession of the BLMC sales pitch for the Maxi. The car had many other more important virtues.

I think the Renault 16 did the same thing, and as it was close competition for the Maxi, it was probably something at the forefront of the marketers mind. Also, people were much more used to roughing it then. It was a selling point of the Saab93-96, too, although with them you had to buy some cheap wooden accessories to make it work.

[Andrew353w]

33 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

The 'it turns into bed' was a marketing obsession of the BLMC sales pitch for the Maxi. The car had many other more important virtues.

Yes, it seemed that this was a big thing in the 1960s. Early Skodas, both the Octavias and 1000MBs all had seating that converted to a bed and was heavily promoted in their advertising. It's almost as if they expected the car to break down and that you'd be stranded overnight! A road test for the Wartburg Knight estate (the "Tourist") from the 1970s  mentions that the rear space with the back seats folded down was over 6 feet; "enough for 2 people to sleep in comfort"......  

[Andrew353w]

5 minutes ago, artdjones said:

I think the Renault 16 did the same thing, and as it was close competition for the Maxi, it was probably something at the forefront of the marketers mind. Also, people were much more used to roughing it then. It was a selling point of the Saab93-96, too, although with them you had to buy some cheap wooden accessories to make it work.

That looks like an IKEA instruction leaflet from the present day!

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15 minutes ago, Andrew353w said:

Yes, it seemed that this was a big thing in the 1960s. Early Skodas, both the Octavias and 1000MBs all had seating that converted to a bed and was heavily promoted in their advertising. It's almost as if they expected the car to break down and that you'd be stranded overnight! A road test for the Wartburg Knight estate (the "Tourist") from the 1970s  mentions that the rear space with the back seats folded down was over 6 feet; "enough for 2 people to sleep in comfort"......  

The bed in my father's Skoda 110LS was very comfy.

when we couldn't get the Maxi which had a radio cassette 

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If you're going on a trip involving  an overnight stop - where do you put the luggage once the bed is 'up' ?  🤔

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20 minutes ago, Westbay said:

If you're going on a trip involving  an overnight stop - where do you put the luggage once the bed is 'up' ?  🤔

In the case of the Maxi or the 110LS the luggage stayed in the luggage compartment which wasn't a part of the Bed.

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Beloy-St.Leonard (France) An unusual sight. Abbé Gavois is raising money to erect a statue in honour of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of motorists. With a 37-year-old vehicle that can reach 12 km per hour, he travels around the country and his prehistoric car has already covered more than 300,000 km. The car has a canvas hood and a wicker trunk on the back. February 1928.

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