Vintage Minor Register


OHC Morris Minor Production

Morris Minor chassis production at Cowley, 1928 or 1929
Final fitting of wings, lamps, bumpers, scuttles and chassis plates before the chassis receive
their bodies.  Note parallel production of Pendrell-engined Morris 6 chassis behind


Morris Minor Chassis Production Statistics


  Chassis Numbers Grand   Total Of Which Total Export Chassis (including van chassis) Of Which
Season From To Total Production Vehicles Chassis Production UK Chassis Export Chassis Australia New Zealand Rest of World Van Chassis
                       
1929 M101 M12295 12,195 10,955 1,240 49 1,191 1,135 24 32 0
                       
1930 M12296 M27011 14,716 13,985 731 -21 752 700 43 9 32
                       
1931 M27012 M34699 7,688 7,483 205 109 96 10 68 18 11
                       
Totals     34,599 32,423 2,176 137 2,039 1,845 135 59 43

Notes:
 
1 These statistics come fom the original factory car progress books held by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, Gaydon.  They do not precisely correlate with the chassis numbers which define seasonal chassis changes as deduced from the Morris Minor spares catalogues, which are:
1929 M101 - M12738
1930 M12739 - M27097
1931 M27098 - M34699
2 The UK chassis quantity of 137 chassis represents the likely total quantity of chassis supplied to UK coachbuilders or private customers.  (The negative quantity of 21 for the 1930 season possibly indicates that chassis delivery overlapped the seasonal change points).
3 Approximately 500 additional chassis were exported to Australia in late 1929 to early 1930 which had chassis numbers beginning with the prefix letter 'Y'.  These chassis were in addition to the 'M' prefix chassis enumerated above.

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