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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, GBE, CH, FRS (10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963), was an English motor manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder of Morris Motors Limited and is remembered as the founder of the Nuffield Foundation, the Nuffield Trust and Nuffield College, Oxford, as well as being involved in his ...
La Morris Motor Company fue creada en 1910 cuando William Morris, un fabricante de bicicletas, después de dedicarse al negocio de la reparación de automóviles decidió fabricar un coche ligero. En 1913, abrió una fábrica en Cowley, Oxford , denominada The Morris Garage .
Sus motores americanos eran ahora fabricados bajo licencia para Morris por Hotchkiss en Coventry. Cuando en 1923 estuvieron poco dispuestos a expandir la producción, Morris compró su empresa y la llamó Morris Engines Limited, que posteriormente se convirtió en filial de Morris Motors.
18 de dic. de 2021 · The life and career of William Morris* could appear straightforward and not unusual in the motor industry: A small bicycle maker evolves into a car builder; the business grows and ultimately becomes part of an industry consolidation; the figurehead retreats and retires; and the name is finally dropped from the cars.
Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.
29 de mar. de 2013 · A 100 years ago, bicycle maker William Morris produced his first car in a newly built factory at the former Oxford Military College in Cowley, Oxford, marking the start of an automotive...
2 de feb. de 2021 · William Morris began repairing bicycles in Oxford as a 16 year old in 1893, before going on to build bicycles and then motor-bicycles. He started manufacturing cars in 1912, but turned the nascent car factory in Cowley over to armaments during the First World War.
