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What you have there is a Mini Clubman 1100
Actually, no it's not.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, the name Clubman was only used on three models - The Mini Clubman, Mini Clubman S (but not until March or April 1973, and very soon changed to Leyland Mini S) and the Clubman GT.
The car in question is a Mini 1100. That's its proper model title. Morris 1100 is correct. It was a base model, or fleet model, and had dry suspension, magic wand gearstick and central speedo.
We actually have the history of all the base models in the next issue of TME (went to printers yesterday) from Mini Minor to Mini 1100 (round-nose) to Mini 1100 (square nose). Final installment was the last of the line, which will be in Issue 20.
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only made from August 1971 to April 1972, after that the models became Leyland Mini Clubman and the Hydrolastic suspension and remote change gearbox was phased out.
Again, not quite correct.
Name changed to Leyland Mini 1100 in mid-1972 when the company officially changed from British Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia (BLMCA) to Leyland Australia. Car continued to be made until December 1972. January 1973 meant more changes with ADRs, and there were other changes to the range. Cars first advertised as Leyland Minis, Clubman and Clubman GT discontinued, hydrolastic discontinued.
What you have seems to be quite rare. I located one in Tassie which is pretty rough but mostly complete (has remote gearchange, but still has the hole in the floor for the magic-wand).
If anyone has a good, original example, we'd like to photograph it for the magazine.
Cheers,
Watto.