Ford's 100 years in photos – 3/52

• Ford celebrates 100 years in Britain
• A photo a week from Ford's archive
• This week – a sticky Ford Cortina

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Ford is celebrating 100 years in Britain by delving into its archive of photographs.

This week, the star of the show is the Cortina – which sold more than four million cars over its 20-year lifespan up to 1982.

Instantly recognisable to fans of The Sweeney and The Avengers, this impressive pair of posters bade farewell to the much-loved model. It's stuck to the poster with Araldite.

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Missed the other pictures?
Click here to see last week's picture of Graham Hill driving a Quadricycle.

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