morris gutty

Originally posted by mike mckinley
hi all

i was reading last night a short write up on the morris gutty prototype for the austin champ. there isn't much info online on this vehicle, so i wonder if anyone has any info or pics of this vehicle?

cheers!!
mike

The Morris Gutty was a first attempt by Nuffield Mechanisations to make just 3 hand-built prototypes for a light field car to the War Office spec issued in September 1944.

All three vehicles were different to each other but using a monocoque body and a 1880cc flat four engine. The vehicles were trialled extensively at Chertsey and elsewhere but found to be far short of the spec requirement.

In 1948 they effectively started again under the Wolseley banner and now with the available and standardised RR B 40 Mk.2A engine. This was the Mudlark and the Champ can be seen to be the direct development of this vehicle.

So, whilst there is a lineage from the Gutty to Champ, the Gutty is not really the Champ forefather.

R.