Check out 'essentials, making the mini' from the menu up top. It's about a tour Paul Mullet took, way back in '01.
Also, there is this:
http://www.mini2.com/forum/showthrea...factory+tou r
that's also very interesting.
Fair warning, btw: you'll end up on a certain Big List if you keep talking about British union labor that way!

But you'll be in good company.