Morris Motors

About Morris Motors

Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles. By 1926, its production accounted for 42 per cent of British car manufacture—a remarkable rate of expansion attributed to William Morris's practice of buying in major as well as minor components and assembling them in his own factory. Although it merged with Austin Motor Company to form the British Motor Corporation in 1952, the Morris name remained in use until 1984, when the by-then Austin Rover Group decided to concentrate on the more popular Austin brand as well as expanding the more upmarket Rover brand. Until 2014, Morris Oxford vehicles (based on the 1954-59 Oxford) were manufactured in India by Hindustan Motors with periodic enhancements, and sold well there, even being imported to Britain in small numbers during the 1990s. Part of Morris's manufacturing complex at Cowley, Oxford, is now BMW Group's Plant Oxford, factory of the Mini marque since its launch in 2001. The Morris trademark is currently owned by the China-based automotive company SAIC, which acquired it from