Minor Magazine Page Two...
Minor art and ephemera...
The Morris Minor is obviously a good subject for painters and graphic artists alike as can be seen from Minor Magazine Page One & the Colour Supplement pages here on this website. Most of the Colour Supplement images were created in the 1930s but the images displayed here & on Minor Magazine Page One in the main were painted much later. Do you have an artists impression of your vehicle or an unusual photograph featuring the car? If so forward your image to the PWMN and they will be displayed here for all to share.
Biggles and the Orstin threat!
Toby Sears acquired a rare 1932 Minor four seater (UX 9251) in the summer of 2009. Included amongst the items that came with the car was this oil painting which presumably depicts some of the places the car has visited whilst in previous ownership. Is that the Blackpool or Eifel Tower and the bridge looks very familar, but the MI Motorway certainly does not, to my knowledge, cross a structure like that!
Member Clive Hall has successfully written and had published a number of business and self help books. Here he turns his hand to writing a 'tongue in cheek' short story concerning Morris Minors and 'Orstin' Sevens. The story's central characters will be well known to men of a certain age and their exploits will not disappoint. Set in the present day, our heroes may have long been retired but what follows proves that there are no old folks homes built that could contain this geriatic gang of mavericks.To read this mini epic, click on the blue button below.
(Following the success of the 'Orstin Threat' Clive has written a sequal 'Biggles Rocks the Squadron' which has now been serialised and is available via the blue buttons below. He is already planning a Christmas Special and a West End play, 'Biggles Minor Musical'.)
Biggles Rocks the Squadron.
A delightful 1931 postcard. Lucky old Morris Minor!
Biggles at the beginning.
Gordon Crosby joined the Autocar magazine in 1908 and continued until his death at the end of WW2. He was an accomplished artist as this late thirties magazine cover image shows.
Biggles takes a trip.
