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The Cooper Car Company is a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles's small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England, in 1946.
For other uses, see Mini (disambiguation). "Cooper S" redirects here. For the Feedtime album, see Cooper-S. The Mini is a small, two-door, four-seat car, developed as ADO15, and produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000.
John Newton Cooper OBE (17 July 1923 – 24 December 2000) was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to the ...
The Cooper Car Company was formed in 1946 by Charles and his son John Cooper. Their aim was to build pure bred racing cars and stared with the Cooper 500. This little single seater race car took the 500 cc class by storm and was extremely successful with drivers like Stirling Moss at the wheel.
Infatuated with motor racing, John and his father, Charles, started the Cooper Car Company in Surbiton, a pleasant suburb of London, in 1946. Initially, the company specialised in single-seater Formula 3 race cars, and showed their reluctance to follow the crowd from the very beginning by placing its small, lightweight engines behind the driver ...
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. The Cooper Car Company is a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles's small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England, in 1946.
Aug 11, 2015 · The T51 became the first mid-rear-engine car in Formula 1 to win a Driver’s Championship as well as the first to win a Constructor’s championship. Then, in 1959, Cooper Cars continued its historic run. Cooper fielded a new T51 car, powered by a 2.5-liter four-cylinder specially built by Coventry Climax to work in a rear-mounted position.
