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The car that started it all, the very first Morris Minor to roll off the company's production line at Cowley, and would become both a popular car during its production life, but even more so after it had finished.
The Morris Minor is a British car that debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, on 20 September 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.3 million were manufactured between 1948 and 1972 in three series: the MM (1948), the Series II (1952) and finally the 1000 series (1956).
Initially available as a two-door saloon and tourer (convertible), the range was expanded to include a four-door saloon in 1950, a wood-framed estate (the Traveller) from Oct.1953 and panel van and pick-up truck variants from May 1953.
Alec Issigonis' concept was to combine the luxury and convenience of a good motor car at a price affordable by the working classes. The Minor was a roomy vehicle with superior cornering and handling characteristics. Internal politics inside BMC, the owner of Morris, may have led to the limited North American sales. The Minor prototype had been known as the Morris Mosquito. Manufactured mainly in Cowley, Oxfordshire, the Minor became Britain's first million seller, and was exported globally. Production continued in Birmingham, England until 1972 (for the commercial variants and estate only).
The original Minor MM series was produced from 1948 until 1953. It included a pair of four-seat saloons, two-door and (from 1950) a four-door, and a convertible four-seat Tourer. The front torsion bar suspension was shared with the larger Morris Oxford MO, as was the almost-unibody construction. Although the Minor was originally designed to accept a flat-4 engine, late in the development stage it was replaced by a 918 cc (56.0 cu in) side-valve inline-four engine, little changed from that fitted in the 1935 Morris 8, and producing 27.5 hp (21 kW) and 39 lbf·ft (50.3 N·m) of torque. This little engine pushed the Minor to just 64 mph (103 km/h) but delivered 40 miles per imperial gallon (7.1 L/100 km; 33 mpg-US). Brakes were four-wheel drums.
In 1952, the Minor line was updated with an Austin-designed 803 cc (49.0 cu in) overhead valve A-series engine, replacing the original side-valve unit. The engine had been designed for the Minor's main competition, the Austin A30, but became available as Austin and Morris were merged into the British Motor Corporation. The new engine felt stronger, though all measurements were smaller than the old. The 52 second drive to 60 mph (97 km/h) was still calm, with 63 mph (101 km/h) as the top speed. Fuel consumption also rose to 36 miles per imperial gallon (7.8 L/100 km; 30 mpg-US).
An estate version was introduced in 1952, known as the Traveller (a Morris naming tradition for estates, also seen on the Mini). The Traveller featured an external structural ash (wood) frame for the rear bodywork, with two side-hinged rear doors. The frame was varnished rather than painted and a highly visible feature of the body style. Commercial models, marketed as the Morris Quarter Ton Van and Pick-up were added in May 1953. Rear bodies of the van versions were all steel. The 4-seat convertible and saloon variants continued as well.
The car was again updated in 1956 when the engine was increased in capacity to 948 cc (57.9 cu in). The two-piece split windscreen was replaced with a curved one-piece one and the rear window was enlarged. In 1961 the semaphore-style trafficators were replaced by the flashing direction indicators, these were US-style red at the rear (using the same bulb filament as the brake lamp) and white at the front (using a second brighter filament in the parking lamp bulb) which was legal in the UK and many export markets at the time (such as New Zealand). An upmarket car based on the Minor floorpan using the larger BMC B-Series engine was sold as the Riley One-Point-Five/Wolseley 1500 beginning in 1957: versions of this Wolseley/Riley variant were also produced by BMC Australia as the Morris Major and the Austin Lancer.
During the life of the Minor 1000 model, production declined. The last Convertible/Tourer was manufactured on 18 August 1969, and the saloon models were discontinued the following year. Production of the more practical Traveller and commercial versions ceased in 1972, although examples of all models were still theoretically available from dealers with a surplus of unsold cars for a short time afterwards. According to Newell (1997), 1.6 million Minors were made in total and Wainwright (2008) even claims that 1,619,857 Minors of all variants were ultimately sold.
The Minor was officially replaced on the Cowley production lines by the Morris Marina (ADO28), which was developed primarily as a response to Ford's top-selling (and in many respects, conservatively engineered) Escort. Building a mid-sized car capable of volume sales (particularly in the lucrative fleet-buying market) was becoming increasingly key in generating healthy profit margins, and was an issue BMC had consistently failed to address in the past. The Marina was developed under the watchful eye of British Leyland management, and used a floor plan and running gear deliberately similar to the Minor to streamline production changeover and minimize the financial outlay associated with chassis development and retooling.
The spiritual successor to the Morris Minor was arguably the ADO16 Austin/Morris 1100 range, which had been launched in 1962 and aimed at the same small family-car market (and actually replaced the Minor in some export markets such as Australia and New Zealand). The crisp styling, hydrolastic suspension and innovative front-wheel drive system (itself a "scaling-up" of the Mini principle) made ADO16 a worthy successor to the (in its day) strikingly forward-looking Minor. However, due to the British Motor Corporation's commitment to both the Morris factory at Cowley, and Austin plant at Longbridge – in addition to a healthy demand for both products – production of the two cars continued in parallel for nearly ten years. Ironically, production of ADO16 only outlasted that of the Minor by three years or so, before being axed in favour of the innovative, export-oriented yet under-developed Austin Allegro in 1974.
Raphy Suggested I should facelift the Blazefury. I've been doing that since I first made it, but whatever. There is room for improvement. Like that new black stripe going across the side, instead of black and then abruptly going to red. More in tune with the Rogue color scheme as well.
Event: South Cheshire Branch MMOC Rally
Location: Blakemere, Cheshire
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Morris Minor line up.
Seen at a pub meet for the Northamptonshire branch of the Morris Minor Owners Club.
Always nice to see one of these. This used to be an apple orchard way back in the distant past but in more recent times it was altered to what you see here. Somewhere I have a photo of it from about 1975 - it looked very different then.
1956 Morris Minor seen here on display at the Sunderland & District Classic Vehicle Society's end of season show at Ryhope Engines Museum on Sunday 29th October 2017.
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Zandar and Gnawgahyde make thier way in to a clearing and spot three Iron Grenaiders in front of them. Before they can react they are surronded. Mayhem:" Gentlemen and I use the term loosely there is no need to die today at least. Put down your weapons."
Bust portrait of Antonia Minor (January 36 BC - 37 AD).
She was the younger of two daughters of Mark Antony and Octavia, the sister of Augustus.
In 17 AD, she married Nero Claudius Drusus, or Drusus the elder, brother of Tiberius and son of the first marriage of Livia, the wife of Augustus.
From this marriage three children were born: Claudia Livilla, Claudius, the future Roman Emperor, Germanicus, designed by Augustus as his successor. For the Julio-Claudian dynasty family tree see the item Stemma Drusorum
Antonia minor was a woman of rare beauty and great virtue (Plutarch). She died in 37 AD to the time of Caligula, and, according to Suetonius’ accounts, she received “post mortem” from his son, the emperor Claudius, the title of Augusta.
Here Antonia is portrayed in the guise of Venus and the bust is considered an idealized posthumous work: during Claudius’ principate, in fact, the imperial propaganda assimilated Antonia to the goddess "Venus Genetrix", the legendary founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Marble bust portrait
Roman Sculpture
1st half of 1st Cent. Ad
Legato Giovanni Grimaldi
Venice, National Archaeological Museum
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Rosacée de 15-80 cm en touffe, assez grisâtre et peu duveteuse. Feuilles surtout basales, pennées avec 4-12 paires de folioles d'un vert franc ou clair à la face inférieure, arrondies ou elliptiques, incisées-dentées, longues de 0,5-2 cm.
Quatre tépales verdâtres souvent lavées de purpurin (surtout sur le côté exposé au soleil). Fleurs mâles à la base de l'inflorescence avec (10-) 20-30 étamines flexueuses, pendantes, insérées à la base du calice, à longs filets blancs et anthères jaunes.
Autres noms français : Bipinelle, Petite sanguisorbe [des noms latins sanguis : sang et sorbere : absorber, qui ont donné le nom de genre convenant plutôt à la Grande pimprenelle (Sanguisorba officinalis)], Pimprenelle des jardins ou ordinaire ou sanguisorbe (cf. H Coste, P Fournier, Nouvelle flore de Belgique..., M Blamey et C Grey-Wilson).
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Bourton-on-the-Water and at least the rain saturated the colours. Just loved the deep red of this Morris Minor van...
1969 Morris Minor 1000 Srs.V 1.1 litre inline 4 at Penmere, Falmouth, Cornwall, 7 September 2021. Allegedly an ex-Police Panda Car!
INNOCENTI MINI Minor
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Morris Minor Van from 1970 VNR 79H
Seen at the 2024 Rushden Classic Car Show at Hall Park, Rushden, Northamptonshire
I discovered this old British vehicle with the next one (still to come) in an old historical street in East London: a perfect decor for these kind of classic cars.
The Minor was originally introduced in 1948 and designed by Alec Issigonis.
This type grille with horizontal slats was fitted from Oct. 1954.
1956 was the last year with a split window.
803 cc.
Production Series 2: 1952-1956.
Production all Minors: 1948-1971.
Date of first registration: March 28, 1956.
MOT was expired om July 26, 2011.
Number seen: 1.
London, E1, Elder street, Jan. 5, 2018.
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Erythranthe guttata, "E. minor morph", US Basin, SE of Red Mountain Pass, San Juan Co., CO, 6 Aug 2021.
Orobanche minor Sm., syn.: Orobanche langei Huter, Porta & Rigo, Orobanche major f. hypochoeridis Beck, Orobanche maritima Pugsley, Orobanche salisii Req. ex Coss. and about 25 other names.
Family: Orobanchaceae Vent.
EN: Lesser broomrape, Common broomrape, DE: Kleine Sommerwurz, Klee-Würger
Slo.: mali pojalnik
Dat.: May 04. 2019
Lat.: 45.07642 Long.: 14.43666
Code: Bot_1191/2019_DSC5058
Habitat: garrigue, moderately inclined hill slope, west aspect; dry, warm, mostly sunny place; calcareous, skeletal ground; exposed to direct rain; elevation 65 m (210 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 12-14 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.
Substratum: soil.
Place: Adriatic Sea, island Krk, next to the trail leading west from village Brzac (old part) to the sea shore, Kvarner archipelago, Rijeka region, Croatia.
Comment (pertains to pictures in the Flickr album Orobanche minor): Orobanche minor is a widespread and quite common holoparasitic species (those that lost all the photosynthetic properties). It is present almost in all European countries (exceptions are Scandinavia and most-northeast countries), in Mediterranean countries of North Africa, in parts of Asia Minor and from Macaronesia to Arabian Peninsula and S. Tropical Africa (Ref.: 4.). Today it is introduced also to other continents.
Generally, to recognize plants belonging to genus Orobanche is easy. These attractive plants are strange looking, with very specific habit and flowers. However, on species level the situation is much more challenging. The reasons are several. Plants are notoriously variable in shape, color and size, they change radically their shape during anthese, they are difficult to study since they lose their colors in herbariums. Hundreds of varieties and forms have been described. 'Total' number of taxa in the genus varies enormously among different authors depending on their taxonomical approach. For some species there is still no agreement on the taxonomy. Consider this: length of corolla of Orobanche minor is described in Ref.: 2. as 10-12(15) mm long, in Ref. 1. as 6-10 mm, in Ref.: 3. as 10-19 mm and as 6-10 mm for one of its varieties (Orobanche minor var. maritima).
This find corresponds well to the characteristics traits of Orobanche minor as described in Ref.: 3.. The solitary plant is relatively small, slender, strongly glandular-pubescent and of 'proper' color (that means most common color). The calyx segments are unequally bidentate and almost filiform at the tip, the bracts are almost as long as corolla, corollas have distinct violet veins on pale-whitish-yellowish background, the upper lip is almost entire, the lower lip is tripartite consisting of unevenly crenate lobes of approximately equal size and the stigma is brown-violet. The plant parasites on many species of several genera, most often on clovers (Trifolium) but also on other legumes, peas and beans (Fabaceae) and composites (Asteraceae). In this find it parasitized Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. rubiflora. Its withered flowers can be seen on Fig. 5.
Ref.:
(1) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 417.
(2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 578.
(3) C.A.J. Kreutz, Orobanche, The European broomrape species, Vol.1., Central and Northern Europe, Stichting Natuurpublicaties Limburg, Maastrich (1995), p 120.
(4) powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:53607-3 (accessed Jan. 22. 2023)