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Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles. By 1926 its production represented 42 per cent of British car manufacture—a remarkable expansion rate attributed to William Morris's ...
The most popular MG Motor product in international markets is the MG ZS subcompact SUV, with a cumulative sales of 999,612 units as of December 2023. [23] [24] [25] It is one of the most exported cars from China. [26] In 2023, MG Motor introduced its first new roadster, the Cyberster electric vehicle, which went on sale in 2024. [27]
The Morris Minor is an economy car produced by British marque Morris Motors between 1948 and 1971. [7] It made its debut at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, in October 1948. [ 8 ] Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis , more than 1.6 million were manufactured in three series: the Series MM (1948 to 1953), the Series II (1952 to ...
Morris Oxford is a series of motor car models produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom, from the 1913 bullnose Oxford to the Farina Oxfords V and VI. Named by W R Morris after the city of dreaming spires , the university town in which he grew up, the manufacture of Morris's Oxford cars would turn Oxford into an industrial city.
William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield (10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963), was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered for establishing the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford, as well as being involved in his role as president of BUPA in creating what is now Nuffield Health.
The Morris Major is an automobile produced by Morris Motors in the United Kingdom from late 1930 until 1933. [2] It was described by commentators as a Morris Oxford Six with a coachbuilt saloon body. [2] 4025 examples of the 1931 model were produced followed by 14,469 of the 1932-33 model. [1]
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Morris bought the assets of Soho, Birmingham axle manufacturer E.G. Wrigley and Company after it was placed in liquidation late in 1923. Up until that point a small number of commercial vehicle variants of Morris cars were built at the Morris plant at Cowley, but with the newly acquired plant in Foundry Lane, Soho, Birmingham serious production began.