Morris Motor Company

Morris Motor Company
legal form
founding	1913
resolution	1952
Reason for dissolution	Merger with Austin to form the British Motor Corporation (BMC)
Seat	Cowley / Oxfordshire , UK
management	William Richard Morris
Branch	Car manufacturers , aircraft manufacturers

The Morris Motor Company was a British manufacturer of motor vehicles .

history

Morris Z series

The Morris Motor Company was founded in 1913 by bicycle manufacturer William Richard Morris . Morris opened its first automobile production facility in Cowley, Oxfordshire, and began manufacturing its first "Bull Nosed Morris" model there . In the 1920s, Morris already had an excellent reputation and was able to expand it further in the 1930s and 1940s by building up and buying additional production facilities and introducing the assembly line production developed by Henry Ford . In France, Morris acquired Automobiles Léon Bollée in 1925 . As a manufacturer of simple, but more reliable and attractively priced vehicles, the brand became the market leader in Great Britain. In 1923 Morris took over the previously independent body manufacturer Hollick & Pratt in Coventry and made it the basis of its own body production. Morris then offered various series with factory bodies. However, there were still special bodies made available by large dealers such as Stewart & Ardern in London. They were made by Cunard , among others .

During the Second World War , Morris was also active in aircraft construction. So around 2000, De Havilland Tiger Moth DH.82 - biplane built.

Shortly after the launch of the most successful Morris passenger car, the Morris Minor, in 1948, the company merged with its biggest rival Austin under the umbrella of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1952 . From then on, Morris was just a brand of BMC, which offered its largely identical vehicle types under different names. The Morris brand was used until the early 1980s, most recently only for the Morris Ital, which was discontinued in 1984 .

The current Mini is produced in the original production facility in Cowley, which is now part of the BMW Group .

Models

Models 1913–1948

Morris Cowley (1927)

Type	Construction period
Morris 6	1931-1935
Morris 8	1935-1948
Morris 10/4	1933-1938
Morris 10/6	1934/1935
Morris 10 Series M	1939-1948
Morris 12/4	1936-1939
Morris 14/6	1937-1939
Morris 9/15	1934-1937
Morris 16	1936
Morris 18th	1936/1937
Morris 21	1935/1936
Morris 25	1936-1939
Morris Cowley	1915-1932
Morris Isis 6	1931-1935
Morris Major 6	1931-1933
Morris Minor	1928-1934
Morris Oxford	1913-1915, 1920-1929
Morris Oxford 6	1921-1924, 1930-1935
Morris Oxford 20th	1935
Morris Oxford 25th	1933-1935
Morris Series Z	1940-1953

Models 1948–1984

Morris Oxford (1964)

Morris Mini Moke (1965)

Morris 1000 Traveler (1971)

Type	Construction period
Morris Minor MM	1948-1952
Morris Oxford MO	1948-1954
Morris Six Series MS	1948-1954
Morris Minor Series II	1952-1956
Morris Oxford	1954-1969
Morris Cowley	1954-1959
Morris Isis	1955-1958
Morris Minor 1000	1956-1971
Morris Mini Minor	1959-1969
Morris Mini Cooper	1961-1965
Morris 1100	1962-1971
Morris Cooper S.	1963-1969
Morris Mini Moke	1964-1968
Morris 1800	1966-1976
Morris 1300	1967-1971
Morris Marina	1971-1980
Morris 2200	1972-1976
Morris Ital	1980-1984

Truck models

Various, most recently Morris FG .

Web links

Commons : Morris Motors - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Morris Forum