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The Morris Minor is an economy car produced by British marque Morris ... (convertible), ... In December 1960 the Morris Minor became the first British car to sell ...
An eager family buys the first Morris Mini-Minor sold in Arlington Texas. The uniquely designed car was met with widespread public acceptance. 26 August 1959 – 101 – The first Mini launched, the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor; August – 4232/4093 – Split radiator cowl; August – 5488/5537 – Pivoting quadrant on radius arm for ...
Morris Marina Since its release, the Morris Marina has been criticized for its poor performance, styling, handling, and build quality. Launched in April 1971 by British Leyland , it reused existing mechanical parts such as a front suspension from the 1948 Morris Minor , ex- BMC engines first launched in the early 1950s, and a gearbox and axle ...
The small car market was entered in 1928 with the Leonard Lord-designed Morris Minor, using an 847 cc engine from Morris's newly acquired Wolseley Motors. Lord had been sent there to modernise the works and Wolseley's products. The Minor was to provide the base for the MG Midgets. This timely spread into the small car market helped Morris ...
The Morris version was known to all as "the Mini" or the "Morris Mini-Minor". This seems to have been a play on words: the Morris Minor was a larger, well known, and successful car that continued in production, and minor is Latin for "lesser", so an abbreviation of the Latin word for "least" – minimus – was used for the new even smaller car.
The first car that can be described as a new MG, rather than a modified Morris was the MG 18/80 of 1928, which had a purpose-designed chassis and the first appearance of the traditional vertical MG grille. A smaller car was launched in 1929 with the first of a long line of Midgets starting with the M-Type based on a 1928 Morris Minor chassis ...
In 1973 the Morris Mini became the Leyland Mini [16] and the Morris Mini Moke became the Leyland Moke. The Australian version of the Morris Marina, which had joined the range in 1972, became a Leyland Marina and was offered with a local market only six-cylinder 2,623 cc engine. Australian Marinas were also shipped as CKD assembly packs to New ...
Production started in 1960 using a Riley, twin-carburettor version, of the 1.5 litre BMC B-series engine, independent front suspension by torsion bar modified from that of the Morris Minor and a live rear axle suspended by coil springs. Other engines could be fitted including the Morris Minor, MG MGA, and Ford 109E. The engine and front ...