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Morris 8/40 Series E Roadster

Morris 8/40 Series E in Foyle's War, TV Series, 2002-2015 Ep. 7.03

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Morris 8/40 Series E Roadster

00:02:46 Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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Sunbar ◊ 2017-02-04 20:49	Series E saloon; modified I think by the full windscreen frame and door shape?
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-02-04 21:11	Link to "www.pioneer-automobiles.co.uk" https://www.flickr.com/photos/44381054@N05/7250643928 Interesting to know if the straight top doors indicate a conversion. The design of the rear of the first car, when compared with the bustleback saloon indicate a fair amount of work to convert one. -- Last edit: 2017-02-04 21:19:14
dsl ◊ 2017-02-04 22:28	Seems Aus-built Tourers (1945+ by Richards) had straight doors. Not jumping to insist this is an Aus car which has ended up in Ireland, but it's a possible explanation. CC was Caernavon - another incomplete sequence which only got to OCC 123 before suffix plates arrived in 1964, so XCC a complete fantasy.
Sunbar ◊ 2017-02-05 15:37	View including rear of car added and dashboard shown.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-02-05 15:42	Second thumb showing dashboard (by coincidence?) shows a saloon Series E being overtaken. From this picture you can see the substantial differences in the panel work to get to the coupe shown as the subject car.
Sunbar ◊ 2017-02-05 15:55	Google images found this example registered in Victoria Australia and identified as 1943 Morris Series E Tourer. No additional information found but rear of body and doors looks to be the same. Source here Wikimedia Commons edit: Morris 8/40 E Series Roadster in Australia from more searches... https://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiefordadverts/7554910040 -- Last edit: 2017-02-05 16:25:30
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-02-05 18:04	I don't doubt that you are correct, but 1943 seems very odd. Perhaps the Australian firm was assembling cars from stockpiled prewar parts, I was not aware that Cowley were producing any Eight Series E cars right in the depth of WW2, or perhaps it meant 1948, which I can confirm as an excellent year for many things to have emerged. -- Last edit: 2017-02-05 18:07:01
dsl ◊ 2017-02-05 18:26	johnfromstaffs wrote 1948, which I can confirm as an excellent year for many things to have emerged. Minx Phase III for instance.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-02-05 19:06	dsl wrote Minx Phase III for instance. Obviously a minor occurrence compared with some completely original models, which appeared in threes.
Sunbar ◊ 2017-02-05 19:19	Agreed, wartime production is unlikely. In 'The BMC Experience: Morris 8/40'[link missing] although not explicitly stated as 'no war-time production', Australian assembly from UK exported chassis and scuttles is split 'before' and 'after WWII'. "Most of the State distributors assembled and finished the vehicles that they sold, using bodies supplied from one or more of the Australian coachbuilders, often, but not always, located near to the distributor's assembly plant." edit: broken link above "Copied from "The BMC Experience" magazine... Quote For the Australian market Morris Industries Export Ltd, in Cowley, a company owned solely by Lord Nuffield at that time, decided that this 8 hp vehicle would be called the Morris 8/40 and that the 'Two Seater' model would be marketed as a 'Roadster'. Research to date has failed to reveal why Lord Nuffield decided on the Morris 8/40 name solely for the Australian market. Although often today referred to in Australia as the Morris 8, advertisements and articles of the time from newspapers and magazines from around Australia show that the Morris 8/40 name, variously written as 8'40, 8/40 or 8-40, was used for all Pre-Series, Series I, Series II, and Series E, 8 horsepower vehicles sold in Australia. It is commonly believed that the '40' represented the fuel consumption of 40 mpg at 40 mph (but may refer to 40ft.lbs torque) and the '8' naturally signified 8 horsepower RAC rating." -- Last edit: 2021-09-18 12:27:11
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2017-02-05 19:40	Thanks for the link. I was wondering how they squeezed 40bhp out of that cast iron antique, now I know!

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