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morris car factory original footage
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:24 pm
by davidmiles
I expect you've all seen this before, always worth a view, original b/w footage of Morris minors being built
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=507hLoHySUE
Re: morris car factory original footage
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:31 pm
by joeone62
wow great footage
Re: morris car factory original footage
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:39 pm
by davidmiles
amazing isn't it, I never knew minors were assembled over there, you can see part one to this film to the right of the you tube screen, it shows the flatpacked and crated bodies arriving at the dockside, presumably from BMC Longbridge.
Re: morris car factory original footage
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:02 pm
by RobMoore
Health n safety would love that place lol.
Amazing how little regard was given to safety but super footage non the less
Re: morris car factory original footage
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:30 pm
by davidmiles
Those two workmen at the very beginning seem to be applying some kind of filler to the door and front wing, the factory doesn'y look well lite by todays standards.
Re: morris car factory original footage
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:59 am
by bmcecosse
Excellent footage - and what wonderful inefficiency! They load everything for one car onto a pallet - move the pallet across - and then unload it all again! If only 'Heritage' would make up the floor-pan / chassis assembly that the car starts from - it would make Minor restoration sooo much easier.