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Although the Minor was originally designed to accept a flat-4 engine, late in the development stage it was replaced by a 918 cc (56.0 cu in) side-valve inline-four engine, little changed from that fitted in the early 1930s Morris Minor and Morris 8, with a bore of 57 mm but with the stroke of 90 mm and not 83 mm, and producing 27.5 hp (20.5 kW ...
The history of William Morris's business is commemorated in the Morris Motors Museum at the Oxford Bus Museum. Post-Morris cars to have been built at Cowley include the Austin/MG Maestro, Austin/MG Montego, Rover 600, Rover 800 and (for a short time) the Rover 75.
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.
MG cars had their roots in a 1920s sales promotion sideline of Morris Garages, a retail sales and service centre in Oxford belonging to William Morris. The business's manager, Cecil Kimber , modified standard production Morris Oxfords and added MG Super Sports to the plate at the nose of the car.
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.
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The S.V. cars continued now known as Morris Minors in contrast to the Morris Family Eight cars. [4] Morris Minor S.V. prices: 2-seater £100; tourer £115; saloon £112.10.0 (with sliding head £125) Chassis only £90 [4] All Morris cars were given anti-splash side-shields to their front wings.
Location of Morris County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Morris County, Texas. There is one property listed on the National Register in the county.