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While the Mini changed everyone’s perception of what a small car could be, the Triumph Herald and the Anglia revolutionised their respective manufacturers’ public image with hitherto unseen sharp, angular styling.

Power was up 25 per cent on the 997cc engine, with a weight increase of only 12lb, resulting in an increased top speed of 84mph, up from 79mph. It was first seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second movie of the series, after Harry and Ron missed the Hogwarts Express and they stole Arthur Weasley's flying car to get to their school. The Anglia was a compact car manufactured by Ford UK from 1939-1967. The Anglia 105E was the fourth-generation of the badge, launched in 1959. All three body styles (saloon, rear hatch estate car, and windowless panel van) had just two passenger doors and a 90.5-inch wheelbase. The average Anglia weighed 1,624 lbs; power came from a 997 cc OHV inline-4 engine. Ford UK mated this engine to a four-speed transmission; new to the fourth-generation were synchros for the top three gears.

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Arthur Weasley faced an inquiry at work following this incident. [4] By Christmas, the Daily Prophet reported that he was fined fifty Galleons for bewitching the Muggle car. [5] In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Harry used a flying light-blue scooter to travel alongside while Ron flew the car. The sprint, if such a term is even appropriate, to 70mph was cut dramatically from 51.5 seconds to 33.4 seconds, with Autocar reporting in December 1962 that “for motorway cruising 75mph is maintained happily with very little engine noise”, returning 28mpg at such speeds, touching 40mpg at slower cruising speeds. Rowling provided a deleted draft to the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition for Harry and Ron's original crashing of the Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. They were originally going to crash into the Great Lake instead of the Whomping Willow and encounter Merpeople for the first time. [12]

In the Muggle world Ford’s new Anglia model was overshadowed by the Mini when it was launched at the 1959 Motor Show but went on to be a sales success with over a million of the 105E and more powerful 123E being built before production ended in 1967. In 1963 the production line was moved from Dagenham to a new factory at Halewood on Merseyside. By 1959, when the new, boldly-styled 105E took over, 345,841 had rolled off the production line. Birth of the 105EThe Harry Potter crew had to use 16 different Ford Anglias for this scene alone. It is reported that 14 of them were destroyed. In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron says that the Forbidden Forest has turned the car wild. He made a similar statement in the book.

Updated February 2022: If you're a fan of Harry Potter or the Ford Anglia, you'll be happy to know that we've updated this article with even more interesting facts about the cool and quirky flying car. In summary, the magazine was full of praise for the upgraded Anglia: “Economical, robust, safe, easy to drive and extremely ‘biddable’, the Anglia Super 1200 offers everything to be expected of a strictly four-seater family car – plus more lively performance, a degree of attention to detail and superior finish that raise it above the run of small, cheap saloons.” According to the rumors, the first of the new sets will be a model of the Flying Ford Anglia. The car will probably be similar to the version from the Privet Drive or Whomping Willow set shown in the picture above.

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After the Harry Potter movies finished filming, a range of fates awaited the cars featured. Singer Liam Payne paid a six-figure price for one of the movie cars, now on display in his garden. Another car is on display at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Actors Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint drove a different, operational version of the Ford Anglia to the 2010 opening of the same theme park. The light blue car (license number 7990 TD) that appears in the second film was an authentic 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, built in Ford’s factory in the United Kingdom. Special effects supervisor John Richardson took out the engine and gutted the vehicle to make it lighter, and then fitted it onto a rotating crane with a special joint called a gimbal head. Upon their return to the Burrow, Mrs Weasley was furious with her sons for taking the car but placed no blame on Harry. The next morning, at breakfast, Mrs Weasley told Mr Weasley what the boys had done, and, startled, he began to ask how it went before hastily switching to a reprimand at a look from his wife. He tried to excuse the car by referring to a loophole in the law regarding ownership of charmed objects, but Molly noted that he wrote that law intentionally making sure that there was a loophole which legally allows him to charm Muggle objects. [2] In all, 250 models were sold in blue, and 500 in gold, out of a total production run of 1,288,956 Anglias over eight years from 1959 to 1967.

Still in America, Sports Cars Illustrated magazine lived with an Anglia for a month and found that the new styling “excited admiration everywhere”. Inside, leather was an option for the new moulded pvc seats, while carpets replaced moulded rubber, a cigarette lighter, screen washers and twin horns were standard along with an upgraded heater. With development work on the all-new Ford Escort well under way, the ageing Anglia headed into its twilight years at the height of the Swinging Sixties. In 1959, the Anglia 105E was one of three new British cars that made a significant mark on the motoring world. A spokesperson for the police said: "For those who have not seen the Harry Potter films, this is the car that flies in the movie and is very well known.

The new engine, while still antiquated in concept, pumped out an improved 36bhp and propelled the Anglia to 70mph, passing 60mph in 29.4 seconds The Flying Ford Anglia is a turquoise automobile bought by Arthur Weasley for the purposes of taking it apart in his shed to see how it worked – at least, that’s the story he told Molly. In fact, in the process of dismantling and reassembling the car, he also bewitched it to be able to fly and installed an Invisibility Booster. He also magically expanded the inner spaces so that an enormous amount of luggage could fit in the boot and an amazing number of people could sit comfortably in its wide seats. Some unbelievable things have happened in Cornwall over the years - and one of them is that one of the "flying" Ford Anglia cars used in the Harry Potter films was stolen from a local studio before reappearing, months later, on Carn Brea. Rowling said: “That turquoise and white car meant freedom and no more having to ask my father to give me lifts, which is the worst thing about living in the countryside when you are a teenager.

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