Morris Minor Owners Club

I heard once that pick-ups, late ones, had external locking door handles on the passenger side. Is that just a rumour or is it actually true?

I thought all minors after 1964 had external locking passenger doors...

I thought all minors after 1964 had external locking passenger doors...

really ? I thought it was just 2 door saloons / travellers / convertibles.

Considering at the very end production was being wound down, and the travs were built at Adderly park too it wouldn't suprise me.

May have just been a "its in the stores, chuck it on" job...

May have just been a "its in the stores, chuck it on" job...

you'd have a job fitting a traveller door on an LCV!

That, is a very good point my friend.....

I personally have never seen one in all my years of Minor ownership and i have owned a fair few late commercials over the years!

Could it have had a donor door from say an ex-GPO van. (Did they have both doors "lockable"?

I cant be 100% sure but Im fairly sure LCV's didnt have externally locking passender doors. The only variant to the norm was a Post office van with a Yale lock. Im fairly sure it was only the drivers door that locked by a key and the passender interior door handle just pushed forward as per 4 door saloons do.

However later LCV's where fitted with steering column locks and the ignition key was also column mounted, but Im fairly sure that was also the case for later Travellers. They also had a different alloy surround to the speedo (no provision for the ignition switch).

Regards

Steve B

I saw a lockable N/S 4dr/LCV door handle on the bay of E a while back, so they must have been made. I've never seen one on a car though.
Perhaps they were fitted to Minors manufactured under licence overseas?

Augh. I wish I'd've seen that, would have bought it in a second. Anyone have any idea where it might have come from?

Pikey wrote:
However later LCV's where fitted with steering column locks and the ignition key was also column mounted, but Im fairly sure that was also the case for later Travellers. They also had a different alloy surround to the speedo (no provision for the ignition switch).

Regards

Steve B

The surround is the same, but has a blanking piece in place of the ign. switch

Heres the speedo surround on my pickup, but I have also seen rubber bungs in place where the switch would have been.<br><br>

Regards

Steve B

Aah, I was referring to the travellers, not the LCVs....

(Monty is a VERY late trav)

I ve had 4 post 64 LCVs 3 of them ex GPO none had a lockable passenger handle, could have come from an LHD model?

For many years if you had a LHD Minor you still had the benefit of the lock on the right hand door only. And they wonder why they didn't sell!!!

FWIW (not much) if you can fit a window lock to the LH quarterlight, this is very practical.
Opening the quarterlight allows you to use the interior handle to unlock/open the door without having to go round to the 'wrong' door.

Ray - that's probably what I'll end up doing; just wondered if the rumor was true - and where I could get one from. Looks like they do exist, just no one knows where they come from :-/

A guy I know went from running a Traveller to an LCV. He was planning to fit a gate bolt and padlock on the passenger door! He was mildly embarrassed when I showed him how to lock it using the interior handle!