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Originally posted by David_Hayward
This Morris-Commercial CS8T looks as though it's an early unit? It looks as though it's a trials truck, with trade plate rego. Any thoughts please?
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Question,Perfesser...
Morris Commercial was tied into Walter Christie as shown here from '32-'38...
Did Morris make any tracked machines???
Or Half tracked machines using Christie tecnology??
MSS.226/MC MORRIS COMMERCIAL CARS Ltd. 1924-1968
Morris Commercial Cars Ltd, 1924-1968
Administrative History
The records described below were in one of ten deed boxes discovered in early 1988 in the `Poplars' building at the Cowley Body Plant when that building was being demolished. The following information was provided by Anders Ditlev Clausager, BMIHT Archivist : in 1924 W.R. Morris took over E.G. Wrigley Co. Ltd. (in liquidation). This was a Birmingham axle manufacturer and one of Morris' suppliers. Morris now established Morris Commercial Cars Limited which acquired Wrigley's factory at Soho in Birmingham and commenced production of commercial vehicles, usually in the payload range from 1 ton upwards, thus supplementing the light commercial vehicles made by Morris Motors Limited at Cowley. Later Morris Commercial took over the former Wolseley factory at Adderley Park in Birmingham. In 1936, Morris sold Morris Commercial Cars to Morris Motors Limited. In the BMC era after 1952, the importance of Morris Commercial as an operating subsidiary declined, although Adderley Park became BMC's main commercial vehicle plant, until the opening of the new factory at Bathgate in Scotland in the early 1960s. Subsequently, Adderley Park was used for the production of light commercials (as in the "Light Commercial Vehicle Division" of BMC). The factory was closed in 1971 and shortly after-wards demolished. The use of the Morris Commercial name on vehicles was discontinued in 1967-68.
MSS.226/MC/1/1-4 1924-68
Scope and Content
Vols. of signed minutes of directors' and general meetings. Largely formal resolutions, e.g. re appointment of directors, patents, licences, agreements, etc. Incl. ann. balance sheets.
MSS.226/MC/1/1 1924 Mar - 1932 Feb
Scope and Content
Specimen business :
p.39 : resignation of W. Cannell of Wolseley Motors as man. dir.
p.78 : licence agreement w. Automotive Products re Lockheed braking system
p.146 : opening of branch in Roumania.
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MSS.226/MC/1/2 1932 Mar - 1938 Jun
Scope and Content
Incl. agreements with John Walter Christie re his convertible chassis and his track-laying vehicle inventions (pp.132, 136).
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MSS.226/MC/1/3 1938 Aug - 1948 Feb
MSS.226/MC/1/4 1948 Feb - 1968 May
REF..
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/li...26mc.htm#N1381