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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.
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 ...
It was the basic model of the Morris two-car range of the time with the Oxford, which used the same 1.5L 26 bhp engine until 1923, having leather upholstery and upgraded lighting as the de-luxe version. Morris acquired the British interests of Hotchkiss in 1923 and renamed them Morris engines branch.
The following is a list of cars marketed under the British MG marque. The marque was owned, and the cars produced, by Morris Garages (1924–1930), M.G. Car Company (1930–1952), British Motor Corporation (1952–1967), British Motor Holdings (1967–1968), British Leyland (1968–1992), Rover Group (1992–2000), MG Rover Group (2000–2006), Nanjing Automobile Group (2006–2011), and MG ...
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Morris Oxford is a series of motor car models produced by Morris 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.
Initially Morris Motors relied heavily on Oxford's local labour force, [1] and William Morris became the largest employer in the city. [2] However during the 1920s and 1930s, Oxford saw a dramatic size and population increase following large numbers of unemployed people from depressed areas of Britain seeking work in Morris's factories.