41 morris project

Mike K · #21 25-07-09, 10:02

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Originally Posted by cliff

Mike I went over the yard about 5 times taking photos the last visit was a week before the crusher moved in and I do not recall any typical English vehicles except for an Austin K6 or K7 6X4, A QL Bedford which found it's way to another place in Kingaroy to save it and some later post war vintage Commers.

Somebody may have grabbed the Morris before you were there Cliff . It was sitting on a tray of a truck. I had pics of it and it was well known it was there . He roughly replaced the wooden planks of the GS body, and in his mind it was 'restored'.

Another chap in Brisbane has or had one too..he is missing the motor ..he lived in the city along the water front ... I rang him years ago ... he was a elderly chap , cannot recall his name .

Another one lives at Wagga in NSW ..the owner intends to restore it, but I've heard nothing from him for over 5 years.

The most original example In Australia is in the Moama museum ..a VMVC member found it in a shed in 1984... 90% complete and running , in very good shape ..he sold it to the museum people around 1986 and there it is today .

The Belfield auction CS8 went to New Zealand I heard ( does anyone know more ? ) ..it sold for a outrageous price as it was in a bad state ..but the chassis was sound.

Another one turned up at Whittlesea , I bought some bits from it at Bendigo swap ( the vehicle itself was beyond help and was scrapped - rust ) . Some time later, a nice elderly chap rang me and told me how his father purchased one from the local Morris dealers in Whittlesea just before the war ended . They used to to tow a horse float with it , they attended horse shows and drove it to Sydney twice . He said they traded it in on new Land Rover in 1952.. which he still owns... He said the Morris had very low miles on it when they bought it . He also said Lanes Motors , the main dealers , were painting them in cheap grey paint before selling them on . He was 15 in 1945 and speaking on the phone, he recalled the autovac on the dash and the concertina air filter on the floor.