Morris Oxford

Morris Oxford
Oxford Series V Saloon 1959
Overview
Manufacturer	Morris Motors British Motor Corporation British Leyland
Production	1913–1935 1948–1971
Body and chassis
Class	Small car

Oxford bullnose two-seater
Oxford 2-seater 1913
Overview
Production	1913–19 standard: 495 deluxe: 980 total: 1,475
Powertrain
Engine	W&P 1018 cc side-valve Straight-4

Oxford bullnose 1919–26
1925 Four-seater tourer on 1925's new long wheelbase chassis
Overview
Production	1919–26
Powertrain
Engine	69.5 x 102mm CA & CB or 75 x 102mm CE 1548 cc 11.9 hp 1802 cc 13.9 hp 14/28

Oxford F-Type Silent Six
William Morris's personal Oxford Silent Six
Overview
Production	1921-1926
Powertrain
Engine	69.5 x 102mm 2322 cc 17.97 hp side-valve Straight-6

Oxford flatnose
Oxford 4-door saloon 1927
Overview
Production	1926–30 (4-cylinder) 32,282 made.
Powertrain
Engine	1802 cc side-valve Straight-4

Oxford 15.9
open two-seater 1928
Overview
Manufacturer	Morris Motors Limited
Production	1926-29
Powertrain
Engine	2513 cc side-valve Straight-4

Oxford Six
Oxford Six six-light saloon 1930
Overview
Production	1929–32
Powertrain
Engine	1938 cc side-valve Straight-6 2062 cc

Oxford Sixteen and Twenty
Oxford Sixteen six-light saloon 1935 registered January 1935 with freewheel and Bendix automatic clutch
Overview
Production	1934–35 6308 made
Body and chassis
Related	Isis, Cowley
Powertrain
Engine	2062 cc 2561 cc

Oxford MO
Morris Oxford Series MO four-door saloon 1952
Overview
Also called	Hindustan Fourteen (India)
Production	1948–54 159,960 produced.
Body and chassis
Related	Wolseley 4/50 / 6/80
Powertrain
Engine	1476 cc side-valve Straight-4
Chronology
Predecessor	Morris Ten series M Morris Twelve Morris Fourteen
Successor	Morris Oxford series II

Morris Oxford is a series of motor car models produced by Morris of the United Kingdom, from the 1913 bullnose Oxford to the Farina Oxfords V and VI.

Named by W R Morris after the city of dreaming spires, the university town in which he grew up, the manufacture of Morris's Oxford cars would turn Oxford into an industrial city.

From 1913 to mid-1935 Oxford cars grew in size and quantity. In 1923 they with the Cowley cars were 28.1 per cent of British private car production. In 1925 Morris sold near double the number and they represented 41 per cent of British production. Meanwhile, Oxfords grew larger from the first 1018 cc, Nine horsepower, two-seater car to the last 2½-litre Twenty horsepower car.

The model name was recycled in 1948 and lasted almost another 23 years through to 1971 but in this time the market sector and engine-size remained nearly constant between 1476 cc and 1622 cc.

1913–19

William Morris's first car was called Oxford in recognition of its home city. It was announced in magazine in October 1912 and production began in March 1913. Virtually all components were bought-in and assembled by Morris. It was a small car with a 1018 cc four-cylinder side-valve engine with fixed cylinder head from White & Poppe.

The car got its popular name, Bullnose, from its distinctive round-topped radiator at first called the bullet nose. Most bodies were of the two-seat open-tourer type, there was also a van version, but the chassis did not allow four-seat bodies to be fitted, it was not strong enough and too short.

It was first displayed at the Olympia Motor Show which opened 7 November 1913. The standard model remained in production unchanged. The new de luxe had a longer wheelbase, 90 in (2,300 mm), and track was now 45 in (1,100 mm). The range of bodies was now expanded from the simple two-seater. Its front axle and steering had been re-designed to reduce "bump-steer"and its radiator capacity increased.

The American engined Continental Cowley, with most other significant components US sourced, shown to the press in April 1915, was a 50 percent larger engined (1495 cc against 1018 cc), longer, wider and better equipped version of this Morris Oxford with the same "Bullnose" radiator.

The Cowley's stronger and larger construction could carry a four-passenger body.

The 1919 Oxford (advertised as early as September 1918) was assembled from locally made components and now took on the rather more substantial aspect of 1915's Cowley. Longer and stronger than the old Oxford, enough to carry five passengers, the new Oxford retained the pre-war Bullnose radiator style in its larger version. From August 1919, the Cowley became the downmarket "no frills" variant with only a 2-seater body and lighter smaller tyres. The new car's 11.9 fiscal horsepower 1548 cc engine was made under licence in Coventry for Morris by a British branch of Hotchkiss the French ordnance company.