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| [[Image:Im19200103A-Morris.jpg|thumb| January 1920.]] | | #redirect [[Morris]] |
| [[image:Im19320311ACar-Morris.jpg|thumb| March 1932.]]
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| [[Image:Im193702MC-Morr.jpg|thumb| February 1937.]]
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| [[Image:Im193702MC-Morris.jpg|thumb| February 1937.]]
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| [[image:Im19390607P-Morris.jpg|thumb|June 1939. ]]
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| [[image:Im1952EnV193-p530.jpg|thumb| 1952. Transfer Machine for Gearboxes. ]]
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| [[image:Im196610MotSC-MorrisMots.jpg |thumb| Oct 1966. ]]
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| 1912 Company founded in Oxford by [[William Morris]] as [[W. R. M. Motors]].
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| 1919 [[W. R. M. Motors]] was liquidated and replaced by '''Morris Motors'''
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| 1926 Became a public company: [[Morris|Morris Motors (1926) Ltd]]; although William Morris kept the Ordinary Shares for himself. It acquired '''Morris Motors Ltd''', and the associate companies '''Morris Engines (Coventry) Ltd''', '''Hollick and Pratt''' Ltd, and '''Osberton Radiators Ltd''', as well as the right to the allotment of about £500,000 of shares in the [[Pressed Steel Co]]<ref>The Times 12 July 1926</ref>.
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| 1926 Took over their main carburettor supplier, [[S. U. Co]] Ltd.
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| 1927 See [[The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter XXI|Aberconway]] for information on the company and its history.
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| 1929 Name changed to '''Morris Motors Ltd'''<ref>The Times, 13 October 1936</ref>.
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| 1932 Morris appointed [[Leonard Lord]] as Managing Director; he swept through the works, updating the production methods and introducing a proper moving assembly line.
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| 1935 Issue of shares to pay for the acquisition of [[Wolseley|Wolseley Motors]] Ltd and [[MG|M. G. Car Company]] Ltd<ref>The Times, 13 October 1936</ref>
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| 1936 Morris and Lord fell out, and Lord left, threatening to "take Cowley apart brick by brick".
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| 1936 Further issue of shares to enable '''Morris Motors Ltd''' to acquire '''Morris Industries Exports Ltd''' and '''Morris Commercial Cars Limited''', the commercial vehicle enterprise; the public owned the Preference Shares as well as a quarter of the ordinary shares. ''' S. U. Carburettor Co''' Ltd was incorporated by Morris Motors to acquire from Morris Industries the business of carburettor manufacture trading under the name of [[S. U. Co]]<ref>The Times, 13 October 1936</ref>.
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| 1938 William Morris became Viscount Nuffield, and the same year he merged the '''Morris Motor Company''' (incorporating [[Wolseley]]) and [[MG]] with newly acquired [[Riley]] to form a new company: the [[Nuffield Organisation]].
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| WWII Produced over 3,000 Tiger Moth aircraft.
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| 1950 Cowley plant capable of producing a total of 150,000 Morris and [[Wolseley]] cars.
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| 1952 The Nuffield Organisation merged with [[Austin]] to form the [[British Motor Corporation]].
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| 1961 Manufacturers of Morris, Wolseley, Riley and MG Cars, Morris Commercial motor vehicles, agricultural tractors, marine and industrial engines. 38,800 employees. <ref>[[1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE]]</ref>
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| == See Also ==
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| * [[MG]]
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| * [[Morris]]
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| ==Sources of Information==
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