{"id":8826,"date":"2020-10-29T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T10:26:41","slug":"news-breaks-mini-metro-report-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/news-breaks-mini-metro-report-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Break&#8217;s Mini Metro report: 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">40 years ago on the 29 October 1980 STOIC reported on, what was then, the new Mini Metro car. This location report was one of several undertaken on location using their portable video recording equipment. Yes, it&#8217;s still in black and white because colour for them was still a little while away, even though the TV Studio had already converted.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Tracy Poole<\/strong> and <strong>Grant Richmond<\/strong> are the reporters on location at the Design Centre in London&#8217;s Haymarket.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frBgDhNiCPE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Colin Grimshaw 29 October 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/about-the-video-archive-blog\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"146.179.8.48\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago on 29 October 1980, STOIC&#8217;s Tracy Poole and Grant Richmond visited the Design Centre to see the new Mini Metro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[212,18467],"class_list":["post-8826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-student-life","tag-stoic","tag-tv-studio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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