FE Morriss

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FE Morriss
legal form
founding 1919
resolution 1920
Reason for dissolution Bankrupt
Seat London
management Frank E. Morriss
Branch Automobile manufacturer

FE Morriss was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank E. Morriss, who was already manufacturing automobiles with his brother before the First World War and marketed them as Morriss , founded the company in London in 1919 . He imported two complete vehicles and around 100 chassis from Crow-Elkhart . Based on these chassis, he began with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Morriss-London . Production stopped in 1920 when the company went bankrupt . Saunders Motors took over the 69 remaining chassis.

vehicles

Morriss made some bodies himself. Others were created by Morgan & Company .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.