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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.
The ADO16 was marketed globally under various make and model names; the most prolific variant was the Austin 1100 and Morris 1100. A the height of its popularity, it was widely known as the 1100 (eleven-hundred) in its home market, or as the 1300 when equipped with the 1275cc engine.
Although Morris launched a new model with a similar name and a similar market positioning, the Morris Mini in 1959, the Minor remained in production for more than a decade after that, and in early 2020, its 23-year production run was counted as the twenty-eighth most long-lived single generation car in history by Autocar magazine, who called it ...
From 1953 a 6-cylinder Morris petrol/gasoline delivering a claimed maximum 100 bhp (75 kW)) of power was also offered. Morris FV Series II, with the revised grille (and front-hinged doors) After the Austin-Morris merger in 1954 the cabin was modified, the most visible difference being the doors which were now hinged at the front end.
This new Morris Cowley was launched on 14 July 1954 [12] as a smaller engined more simply furnished supplement to the Morris Oxford Series II launched two months earlier. [13] The engine, the 1.2 L (1200 cc) B-Series unit was a new design also used in the Austin A40 and Nash Metropolitan. Its power output was 42 bhp at 4,500 rpm. [13]
Although an overhead valve engine like the M-Series engine fitted to the previous Ten Series III, the X-Series was a brand new design following the disappointing performance and reliability of M-Series, which was related to the older Morris sidevalve engines. The Series M's X-Series engine had a 'free-flow' eight-port cylinder head and adopted ...