With MINI’s introduction in 2010 of the MINI Countryman, we need to look back 50 years to another introduction, that of the Austin Seven Countryman. The Countryman name had been used in the Austin range of cars to denote the estates (station wagons in U.S. lingo). In September 1960, the name was applied to a Mini line just a little more than a year after the August 1959 launch of the first Minis.
By January 1960, the first long wheel base Mini, the Van, went into production and was introduced in June of that year with a 4” longer wheel base and about another 6” in rear overhang. Just a few months later in September, the second LWB Minis were introduced. The estates, clad in decorative wood, came in a Morris version called the Morris Mini-Minor Traveller (Traveller being a Morris estate name) and an Austin Seven (as the Austin Mini was known initially) version called the Countryman.

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I love the new Countryman! I will sell everything i own to have one. Except my 03 S.

 

mk1 traverer /estate had wood trim in mk2 it was a optinal extra to have wood..........mk3 became the square nosed clubmam estats...........