Here is a selection of British pickups, most built on the Australian ute pattern, which were never seen in this country. The South Africans built the Ford Bakkie, based on the Mark V Cortina (TE to us), and these were marketed in the UK as the P100. They later did the same to the Sierra, and one is seen here at Whitby in Heartbeat country. Probably spent too long facing the North Sea…. Humber converted a few Mark IV Humber Super Snipes for use in the Middle East by oil companies. BMC did their own thing with the Austin A55 by giving it a longer tray, and they ran this all the way to 1971, before replacing it with the… Marina! New Zealand assembled these, perhaps wisely, Leyland Australia decided not to. Similarly, Siam Di Tella in Argentina concocted these pickups on the Farina bodyshell, complete with Riley grille. The one and only Freeway ute looked almost exactly the same at the rear. What is surprising is that BMC Australia took on the Mini Van, but not the ute. They were basically the same platform, and the van was always a strong seller, right from 1964 through to the mid-1970s.