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A rear three-quarter picture of a Cooper T51, the first World Championship-winning mid-engined Formula One car. The Cooper Car Company was a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper.
The Mini (developed as ADO15) is a small, two-door, four-seat car produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000.
The Mini (stylised as MINI) supermini range, marketed under various names such as Mini Cooper, Mini Hatch, Mini Hardtop, Mini One, and Mini John Cooper Works, are a family of retro-styled three-door hatchback, two-door convertible, and five-door hatchback (since 2014).
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1947.
