Britain and BMW to build another Mini – in pictures

August 1959: One of the first Mini advertising campaigns - an Austin Seven Morris Mini-Minor car on a podium with the amount of luggage it apparently could hold Photograph: R. Viner/Getty Images

26 August 1959: One of the first British Motor Corporation (BMC) Minis, its bonnet open to reveal the transverse engine at a demonstration day at the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment in Surrey Photograph: Derek Berwin/Getty Images

An Austin Morris Mini Cooper on the road in February 1963 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

1963: Some of the 100 mini-vans that made up part of the RAC Roadside Service in the sixties Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

A 1966 version of the Mini Moke, which began production from 1964-1968 Photograph: Jacques Blot / Rex Features/Jacques Blot / Rex Features

British car of the sixties, the Austin Morris Mini, driven by Finnish rally driver Timo Mäkinen in January 1967 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

British model Twiggy at the wheel of the Mini in which she passed her driving test in London, November 1968. Top celebrities were often employed to promote the Mini Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

The camper version of the original Mini, made in the sixties. This vehicle was put on display in the BMW Mini plant';s visitor centre in Oxford in September 2006 Photograph: Jonathan Player / Rex Features/Jonathan Player / Rex Features

New police Austin mini-coopers lined up with a Jaguar at Surbiton, Surrey, in June 1968. The Mini was used in many areas of public service as its popularity grew Photograph: William Milsom/Getty Images

The Italian Job (1969), starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill, heavily featured Mini Coopers nipping around the crowded streets of Turin. The 2003 film remake featured the newer models Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

A custom-made Shortened Mini in 1972 Photograph: Rex Features

An Austin Mini Clubman with automatic transmission on display at a motor show in November 1971 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

An Austin Mini motor car with bodywork customised with old penny coins in May 1976 Photograph: Allan De Vries/Action images

Alec Issigonis, who was influential in the development of the Mini, pictured at Longbridge with the first production Mini and a 1965 Model in 1989, the 30th anniversary of the Mini Photograph: Rex Features

One of the final models of the Mini Pick Up van, which was in production between 1961 and 1982 Photograph: Phil Talbot/Rex Features

Seminal sixties' artist Alan Aldridge decorated a Mini with psychedelic patterns at his exhibition at London's Design Museum in October 2008 Photograph: Richard Young/Rex Features

A Mini parked on a rooftop at the BMW Mini car factory in Cowley, Oxford, in February 2009. BMW said nearly a fifth of workers at the plant would be affected by the slowdown in the car market, with a cut in the working week from seven days to five. Photograph: Max Nash/AFP/Getty Images

The Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) Mini Cooper Paceman concept car sits on stage following its unveiling at the North American International Auto Show in 2011 Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

A camouflaged ‘teaser’ shot of the MINI Coupé which will go on sale before the end of the year Photograph: PR