The main assembly line at the Cowley Factory, c1935. William Morris (1877-1963) opened a factory at the former Oxford Military College at Cowley, Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1913. Morris Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited. By 1926 its production represented 42 per cent of British car manufacture.

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