THE WEEK THAT WAS: The bubble car returns

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There's a tale told that Leonard Lord, head of British Motor Corporation (the merged Austin and Morris post-war), eyed Isetta bubble cars and their ilk - result of the 1956 Suez Oil Crisis and general postwar austerity) and ordered Alec Issigonis to design something to get 'em (stronger words were used) off the roads.