Engine Production.

[Courthouse/Tom]

Were all Morris Minor engines built at the Courthouse Green factory in Coventry ??. If so,between what years, etc.
Thanks.

[JOWETTJAVELIN]

I suspect that in the later BMC/BL days engines would have come from all over the place, but perhaps mainly from Longbridge. The A-series was an Austin design after all!

Of course they would have had a foundry at Cowley but I don't know much about that place.

[Dean]

For info, there was a MOWOG foundry for the A series at Beans on the Wolverhampton Road in Tipton.

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/indus ... ipton.html

[lambrettalad]

did beans used to make their own cars years ago ?

[Rasputin]

Yes 57 varieties

[les]

Went like the wind.

[Alec]

Hello Lambrettalad,

There certainly was a Bean motor car made by a company in Tipton in the nineteen twenties, whether it is the same Bean I don't know but it probably is.

Alec

[lambrettalad]

hi Alec

I thought I saw one or two at the Black Country Museum Vintage car show a couple of years ago ,very nice too.One of many local firms making cars in those days.

[Dean]

Yes, I think it is the same company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_Cars