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During the Fifties, we had a procession of Morris cars go through the family. The most prolific was the Morris 8, a sturdy little car that was under powered but adequate for the time. When one broke down badly, it was scrapped and replaced with another 50 quid banger. The 10/4 served my sister well for three years and was fairly trouble free. My father had a Morris 6 cylinder: he could not find a good Wolseley 6/80. Great old cars built when Britain still had a global market. I had an MG TB as my first car: a 1939 model purchased for 80 pounds with a knocked out engine. I found a wrecked TC in a scrap yard with a good XPAG motor and purchased it for 30 pounds, ending up with a very good little car. The MG was a Morris product.
A good pal of mine at school had access to a family Morris 8 tourer, circa 1937. We drove from Cheltenham, Glos to Ipswich in it. Great little tourer but breathless on the Cotswold hills.
A man of great taste. I adore my little 1932 £100 Minor two-seater. It gets used weekly and it did 600 miles (1000kms) of faultless travelling over a long weekend (Thursday-Monday) back in June. They're a solid, well engineered motorcar.
Lovely stuff. In the early 50's my parents ran a 1934 Morris 16. Gorgeous looking thing but times were still hard after the war. My father said he paid very little money for it and later found it very difficult to sell. I remember him telling me that some people even removed pistons from the sixes to reduce the effective capacity and to try to save fuel comsumption. Dread to think how they ran. They replaced it with an Austin 7 which must have seemed very basic by comparison. I'll see if I can find some pictures.
Oh those memories! At 5:06, is a beautiful 1937 Morris 8. Back in 1957 / 1958, I was ten years old. My Dad had exactly the same model and colours. It was the first car that I had ever driven, and I learnt to drive real good in the Morris Eight. When there was six family members in it, the car struggled to climb the slightest hills - all in first gear! A sad ending, because the 30 - quid Morris caught fire and was destroyed, after only two years of motoring. At just ten years old, I was (secretly) sad inside, to hear this bad news from my Dad. The Reg. Number was RJ 7130.
I really enjoyed this collection Rick, brought back memories of my first car in 1962 which was a Morris 10 series M 1946 with a rotten rear chassis! I had it repaired as my welding skills were not developed enough to trust myself (I was 17). I kept it for a while until I bought my foreman's 1947 Austin 16 with a straight through exhaust!
A good collection of Morris cars and vans. They were probably one the most popular makes of their time a bit like Ford after the war, 50's and onwards. You cannot help but love a Morris they seem so comfortable to look at if that makes sense. Thanks Rick once again for sharing this collection. 👍👍
Yet another interesting collection and so relaxing to watch on this -3C morning 'ere up Norf. The evolution of the car from the early days up until the present time is fascinating.
Found the remains of a Morris on property in eastern North Carolina 2 years ago. The only way I knew it was a Morris was the chromed hood ornament. Wish I could post a photo. Enjoyed your video.
Hi Rick, I do love these 'collection' videos you do, such a variety of vehicles, and in so many states of condition. That red and cream Morris 8 series E has been through 'Matthewsons' - Bangers and Cash Auction - I wonder if it was before or after you photographed it ? Thanks for donating your time and effort on these videos - always great viewing. Take care 🙂
Funny you mention that, I saw the Series E on the B&C episode the other evening, in the corner of someone's garage. There can't be two out there with such a vivid colour scheme. Thanks for watching
The Four-seater Minor Tourer @36:05 looks very much like a (very rare) early (1931 season) Side-valve car. The give away is the black painted radiator grill that was introduced with the first of the £100 SV two-seaters in February 1931. Another pointer is the black painted windscreen surround. They reverted back to a chrome finish for both items for the 1932 models, with the introduction of a new design of grill surround. The first year of SV production also retained the dashboard instruments and 'small hub' wire wheels of the OHC Minor, but for the 1932 MY the cars came with the 'large hub' Dunlop 'Magna' wire wheels, and the dashboard changed from cream-faced to black-faced dials.
My late father had a 1938 Morris 8 just after the war. It was apparently a 4-door deluxe with what they called 'artillery wheels' or 'easy-clean wheels' in those days, as opposed to the earlier spoked wheels. He said the number was CBC 93, a Leicester registration as that's where we lived. Being a 71 year old I love your collections of photos as in many cases they're cars which I used to work on as a young mechanic, but for the life of me I can't figure out why you read out all the registration numbers - we can see those ourselves if we're interested!
Thanks for watching, I read out some of the reg's as not everyone has 20/20 eyesight and also it helps me if I'm glancing through notes at the same time as doing the voiceover.
We had a '34 Ten Four back in the late fifties, us kids thought the Ten Four badge was pretty cool because that's what detective Dan Matthews (Broderick Crawford) used to sign off with in 'Highway Patrol'.
Great content as always Rick , The ' traffic light ' indicators on the Morris 10 at 2.59 were introduced in 1933 ( only ) to 10h.p models and above, made by Wilcot Accessories of Fishponds, Bristol and outlawed by the Ministry of Transport in 1934 as ' too confusing ', the red light each side ' flickered ' as was stated so almost certainly ahead of their time !.Morris retrofitted with Lucas made semaphores in 1934 at huge cost to the Company .I would guess YU 8160 at 35.07 is basically a style known as a Doctor's Coupe , 2 seats and usually a dickey.
Michael McEvoy was a motor bike builder and tuning specialist, started at Brooklands, where The McEvoy Shed is still an exhibit. He had the import concession for Zoller superchargers, but later moved to Derby where he fitted superchargers to Wolseley Hornets among others.
My Granddad bought a Morris 8 1936 in 1939 when drivers were standing them up in 1945 he gave the car to my farther and his brother who used it up to 1956 with many family outing ware the 2 families sharing the car my Granddad never drove IF i remember correctly it was maroon and black REGNO NNM444
In the 1950s I bought a large Morris saloon, I liked it but I was just a teenager and sold it on, I remember it had in built jacks which could be pumped up from the drivers footwell. do I remember this correctly ?
Yes that would be the Jackall system, quite a few large saloons had it - in a video I did this year (the Wem show) a gent with an MG YB demonstrated the Jackall system on his car
