Making Cars At Cowley - From Morris To Mini Morris Centenary Special Edition

Authors: Gillian Bardsley and Stephen Laing, Softbound, 175 Pages, ISBN: 9780752491462, 2013 Edition of book first published in 2006

- Morris Centenary Edition

In 1913 an ambitious young businessman named William Morris,converted a derelict military college on the outskirts of Oxford into an assembly hall for motor vehicles.

He thus opened the first chapter in one of the most extraordinary success stories of the British motor industry, becoming Lord Nuffield and a multi-millionaire in the process.

From Morris Motors and Pressed Steel, via the British Motor Corporation and British Leyland, to its role as part of BMW, Cowley has been a significant player in car manufacture. Though the old factory chimneys have given way to more modern developments, Oxford today would be a very different place without its influence.

Most of the photographic material in this book is taken from the comprehensive archive collections of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, located at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon. In this revised and fully updated edition, additional illustrations and a new chapter seek to show the contribution made by Morris cars to the history of the British motor industry.