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William Morris's Morris Garages in Longwall Street, Oxford, was the Oxford agent for his Morris cars. Cecil Kimber joined the dealership as its sales manager in 1921 and was promoted to general manager in 1922. [2] Kimber began promoting sales by producing his own special versions of Morris cars. [3]
Cecil Kimber, head of Morris's own original 1909-founded Morris Garage sales hire and repair operation in Oxford, began building sporting versions of Morris cars in 1924 labelling them MG. They were so successful a separate MG factory was soon established south of Oxford in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Wrigley had also been a major supplier to Morris Motors Limited and was bought by W R Morris in 1923. Presumably with the help of contacts, Kimber got a job in 1921 as Sales manager with Morris Garages , [ 3 ] also a private company owned by Morris — he founded it in 1909 — and the Morris agency in Oxford .
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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.