Morris Oxford

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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, together with the Cowley cars, were 28.1 per cent of British private car production. In 1925, Morris sold nearly double the number, accounting for 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.

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