The Bullnose Morris (First Edition)

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Authors: Lytton P Jarman and Robin Barraclough, Hardbound, 257 Pages, ISBN: B000MFBKQG ,First Edition, 1965 - Damaged Jacket - book in excellent condition !

The Bullnose Morris, so called on account of its shapely radiator, was a remarkable car. It was created by a humble craftsman and brought to Lord Nuffield (as he became) fame and a fortune which enabled him to give away astronomical sums of money to deserving causes. William Morris, as he was, set out to mass-produce motor-cars in England as Henry Ford had produced the model-T Ford by the million in America.

But although it was made in enormous numbers, the Morris remained a car of character, endearing itself to its staunch owners by the whine of its gears and the squeal of its brakes as well as by its low price and honest specification.

Because so many motorists began their driving careers in these cars there still exists enormous interest in them. The Bullnose Morris Register caters conscientiously for Bullnoses which have survived the passage of time, and in this unique book its painstaking historians, Lytton Jarman and Robin Barraclough, tell the complete story. This is an account not only of how the Bullnose Morris made a fortune for its industrious creator but of how he circumnavigated industrial crises, how many different models of his likeable cars were evolved, and of all the fascinating off-shoots of the Nuffield commercial empire.

The Bullnose Morris was a car which moulded motoring history. Now two reliable motoring historians have documented its career, from the first pre-World War One light cars to the many versions, private, commercial and even sporting, which en-
almost to the end of the vintage era. trenched it as a gigantic financial success

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