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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 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.
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 ...
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.
It was announced on 26 October 1948, along with the new 918 cc Morris Minor and the 2.2-litre Morris Six MS. Designed by Alec Issigonis, the Oxford, along with the Minor, introduced unibody construction techniques. [18] The MO was sold as a 4-door saloon and 2-door Traveller estate with an exposed wooden frame at the rear. Both were four-seaters.
A two-door estate version of the Series MO was introduced in September 1952. [6] Marketed as the Oxford Traveller, it had an exposed wooden frame at the rear. Just 3½ inches longer than the saloon which its dimensions otherwise matched the Traveller was given bench seats front and back, the front backrest split for access to the back.
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.
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