The British Motor Corporation came into being in 1952 with the merger of two great British motor companies namely, Nuffield Motors and Austin.
Due to the unrest after the Second World War and the Suez Crisis, which resulted in shortage of petroleum in Britain, there was a need for a high mileage car in the market. This is when Leonard Lord, chairman of British Motor Corporation went to engineer Alec Issigonis to design a car that could compete with the high-mileage German import cars.
