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Launched at the Earls Court Motor Show on 20th September 1948, the Morris Minor was the first British car to reach a production of one million. In fact over 1.6 million were eventually made at the manufacturing plants at Cowley in Oxfordshire, and exported to all four corners of the globe, until production ceased in 1971.

The Minor was built by William Morris (Lord Nuffield) of the Nuffield Organisation. which included (amongst many, many other firms), Wolseley, the SU carburettor company and Morris Garages, or MG.

All the Morris Minor prototypes were 57 inches wide, but the designer felt that this was too narrow, and ordered one of the eight prototypes to be cut down the middle. The change obviously had serious design implications for the design team, who had to recalculate hundreds of dimensions. But the extra width gave the car improved stability and road holding. A reminder of this historic decision can be seen on all Morris Minors, by the flat strip that runs down the centre of the bonnet.

The Morris Minors designer, Alec Issigonis, was later knighted and went onto design other famous vehicles including the Mini.

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