Editing Morris Minor (section)

{{About|the motor car manufactured by [[Morris Motors|Morris Motors Limited]] from 1948 until 1971|the Morris Minor manufactured by Morris Motors Limited from 1928 to 1933|Morris Minor (1928)}}
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{{Infobox automobile
| name = Morris Minor
| image = Morris Minor 1000 in New Square first registered February 1963 948cc and an icon.jpg
| caption = Morris Minor 1000 4-door saloon
| manufacturer = [[Morris Motors]] (1948–1952)<br />[[British Motor Corporation]] (1952–1968)<br />[[British Leyland]] (1968–1971)
| production = 1948–1971<br/>1,619,958 produced <ref>Newell (1993) p.79</ref>
| assembly = [[United Kingdom]]: [[Cowley, Oxford]], [[England]]<br />[[Malaysia]]<br />[[Thailand]]<br />[[Malta]]<br />[[Australia]]<ref>{{citation | first = Pedr | last = Davis | title = The Macquarie Dictionary of Motoring | year = 1986 | location = Dee Why, N.S.W., Australia |publisher=Macquarie Library | page = 337 |isbn=0949757357 |oclc=27630877}}</ref><br />[[New Zealand]]<ref name=NZA>{{citation | ref = NZa | title = Assembly: New Zealand Car Production 1921–98 | last = Webster | first = Mark | publisher = Reed | year = 2002 | page = 1 | location = Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand | isbn = 0-7900-0846-7 }}</ref>
<br />[[South Africa]]<ref name=RSA>{{cite web | ref = RSa |url= https://www.morrisminor.co.za/index.php/the-morris-minor/ |title= The History Of The Morris Minor |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 2024|website= The Morris Minor |publisher= MMOC South Africa |access-date= 8 April 2024 |quote=In South Africa, the assembly of these CKD kits took place at the Motor Assemblies Limited plant in Durban. In addition a few hundred "Minors" were assembled at the BMC plant at Blackheath in the Western Cape. (Local South African figures suggest that some 33 333 vehicles were produced at these two plants).}}</ref>
| wheelbase = {{convert|86|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=DlyExpressLonMoShoRev1966>{{Cite journal | last = Cardew | first = Basil | journal = Daily Express | title = Review of the 1966 Motor Show | year = 1966 | publisher = Beaverbrook Newspapers | location = London }}</ref>
| width = {{convert|60|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
| length = {{convert|148|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
| height = {{convert|60|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|1708|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}} (four-door saloon)
| class = [[Economy car]]<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1957/32/trial-of-the-morris-minor-1000/ |title= Trial of the Morris Minor 1,000 |work= [[Motor Sport magazine]] |date= July 1957 |access-date= 9 April 2023 |last= Boddy |first= Bill}}</ref>
| predecessor = [[Morris Eight]]
| successor = [[BMC ADO16|Morris 1100]]<br />[[Morris Marina]]
| designer = [[Alec Issigonis|Sir Alec Issigonis]]
| layout = [[FR layout]]
| sp = uk
}}

The '''Morris Minor''' is an [[economy car]] produced by British marque [[Morris Motors]] between 1948 and 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/reviews/morris/minor/ |title= Morris Minor (1948–1971) |date= 8 August 2014 |access-date= 9 April 2023 |website= honestjohn.co.uk}}</ref> It made its debut at the [[Earls Court]] Motor Show, London, in October 1948.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.morrisminoroc.co.uk/index.php?page=452 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903162336/http://www.morrisminoroc.co.uk/index.php?page=452 |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 September 2012 |title=60th Birthday Celebration at British Motor Industry Heritage Centre, Gaydon |publisher=Morris Minor OC |location=UK |access-date=9 October 2010 }}</ref> Designed under the leadership of [[Alec Issigonis]], more than 1.6&nbsp;million were manufactured in three series: the Series MM (1948 to 1953), the Series II (1952 to 1956), and the 1000 series (1956 to 1971).

Initially available as a two-door [[sedan (car)|saloon]] and [[tourer]] (convertible), the range was expanded to include a four-door saloon from September 1950. An [[estate car]] with a [[Woodie (car body style)|wooden frame]] (the Traveller) was produced from October 1953 and [[panel van]] and [[pick-up truck]] variants from May 1953.<ref>Paul Skilleter's book "The world's supreme small car Morris Minor"</ref> It was the first British car to sell over a million units,<ref name="Willson 1995">{{cite book|last=Willson|first=Quentin|title=The Ultimate Classic Car Book|year=1995|publisher=DK Publishing, Inc.|isbn=0-7894-0159-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ultimateclassicc00quen}}</ref> and is considered a classic example of automotive design,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3785155.stm Nominate England's greatest icon], (from BBC news.com) Quote: "Design classics like Alex Issigonis' Morris Minor car could be competing alongside great artworks like Constable's Haywain and pieces by JMW Turner"</ref> as well as typifying "Englishness".<ref>{{Cite book | last=Pender | first=Karen | title=The Secret Life of the Morris Minor | page=[https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofmorr0000pend/page/7 7] | publisher=Veloce Publishing | location=Goldmanstone, Dorset, UK | year=1995 | isbn=1-874105-55-3 | url=https://archive.org/details/secretlifeofmorr0000pend/page/7 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/8236614/The-Morris-Minor-A-British-miracle.html The Morris Minor: A British miracle Strange to say for something that acquired a reputation for essential Englishness] Telegraph.co.uk</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/06/review-morris-minor-biography Kathryn Hughes The Guardian, Saturday 6 December 2008 Article history] quote: But if the Morris has a tendency to diminish physically as the years progress, culturally it has been busy laying down rich stores of fat. Indeed, so identified has the car become with a particular reading of Englishness</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/Motoring/article68725.ece | title = Fifty-one, but still a Baby | author = Prince Frederick | quote = Morris Minor models, believed to "typify Englishness", were in the ascendant | journal = The Hindu | date = 29 December 2009 }}</ref>

Although Morris launched a new model with a similar name and a similar market positioning, the [[Mini|Morris Mini]] in 1959, the Minor remained in production for more than a decade after that, and in{{nbsp}}early 2020, its 23-year production run was counted as the twenty-eighth most long-lived single generation car in history by [[Autocar (magazine)|Autocar]] magazine, who called it: "...&nbsp;a primary way Britain got back on the road after the [[Second World War]]."<ref>[https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/survivors-world%E2%80%99s-longest-living-cars#8 Survivors: The world’s longest-living cars – AutoCar]</ref>