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Making Cars at Cowley: From Morris to Rover (Paperback)

by Gillian Bardsley (Author), Stephen Laing (Author)

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd (18 Nov 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0750920971
ISBN-13: 978-0750920971

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 527,866 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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In 1913 William Morris, one of the pioneers of the British motor industry, converted a derelict military college on the outskirts of Oxford into a modest workshop to manufacture motor vehicles. So began one of the extraordinary success stories of motoring history. By producing practical and affordable cars which sold all over the world, Morris widened the social scale of car ownership and thus helped to change the face of modern transport. This earned him a series of public honours, leading to his elevation to the peerage as Lord Nuffield in 1938. This book celebrates his remarkable achievement and the cars which made his reputation. It also records the uncertain fortunes of the company during the post-war period as it became subject to wider forces of merger and take-over, becoming part of the British Motor Corporation, then British Leyland and finally the present-day Rover Group. The authors have drawn on the superb collection of photographs preserved in the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust's archives to provide an account of this story. The photographs show the evolution of manufacturing methods which started with hand-building, developed into mass production, and culminated with the introduction of the robots of the early 1980s.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential book for a British car owner or collector., 29 Feb 2000

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Everyone that has ever owned a British car, preferably a Morris or an Austin, should buy this book.

It tells the history of one of the oldest, and possibly most famous automobile production plants in England, in a lavishly illustrated easy to read and digest fashion, that is just as refreshing as it is informative.

The book quite rightly concentrates on the glory years of the British automobile, rather than dwell on the troubled times to come, carefully taking the reader from the humble beginnings of the Morris name, right up to the Rover/BMW ownership and re-development of the plant.

One thing that I found especially interesting was the evolution of both the products that the factory produced, and also in the evolution of the processes involved. The photographs showing the transitions between the manual, labor intensive processes, and the more automated ways as the book progressed.

There are many, many photograpaphs that are simply wonderful period pictures, giving you a fascinating view of the industry in the early 1900's onward.

Highly readable, highly reccomended, beautifully presented. Worth buying just for the pictures, but read the text too, it is very well written, and tells the story in a very careful and concise fashion.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brillant pictures to watch again and again, 27 Sep 2000

By	alex@club-mini-france.com (France) - See all my reviews

This book is a "must see", for those who wants to learn about Nuffield companies. On a one hand, there are a lot of beautiful pictures, but on the other one, a little bit more text would have been better. Anyway this is a good bargain.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Past times, 28 April 2009

By	Michael J. Byrne "Mike B" (Brentwood, Essex, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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A valuable insite on how the British car industry got started - and why it crashed.

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