05-07-2022, 12:57 PM
At the time the registration records were computerised it was only a few years after the Mini was introduced, when the Austin version was badged as a Seven, so the keyboard operators saw Seven and assumed it was an 850cc Mini, although that doesn't explain an 885cc entry! Another problem was the programmers could only cater for a limited number of colours, so an orange car would be entered as red, and a purple as blue, cream would be white and beige was brown, and so on.