The automobile who does fundamentally getting better known since the Marina is designed primarily because an enthusiastic Escort/Cortina competition
The initial major work for the fresh Haynes and you will Mann partnership is actually ADO28 (above), inspired just months once BMC and you can Leyland Automobiles blended. They represented the original part of a complete plan Roy Haynes got built to own BMC, in which there is simply about three first chassis, to and that a number of additional bodies was lay, ‘…sets from Minis to Jags,’ said Harris.
The task at Ford
‘Whenever Roy spent some time working at the Ford, however come up with the end you to BMC didn’t have an enthusiastic Escort opponent. The newest nearby point in order to it had been the fresh new Slight. The fresh Marina got the concept of the brand new Lesser and you will blew it up with an alternate human body. It actually was an endeavor to attempt to broke up the number and now have some money straight back.’