The British Carmakers Who Fought a Polio Epidemic With Iron Lungs

MINI Plant Oxford celebrates 100 years of production Its first car, a Bullnose Morris Oxford, was produced on 28 March 1913 just metres from today's facility Total car production to date stands at 11,655,000 and counting Over 2,250,000 MINIs ...

London, March 28: The automobile factory in Oxford's Cowley, which gave Uttarpara the assembly line for manufacturing Morris Oxfords and Calcutta its Ambassador taxi, was today celebrating 100 years of car making. Over the past century, more than 11 ...

It will be to the day when the first 'Bullnose' Morris Oxford was built by William Morris, a few hundred metres from where the modern plant stands. Twenty cars were built each week at the start, but the business grew rapidly and over the century ...

MORE than 50 child grooming gangs are being investigated in the ongoing police crackdown on sexual abuse. Children are falling victim to sex-gangs in Britain The former Attorney General, Lord Morris of Aberavon, said yesterday that at least 27 ...

Good Friday saw BMW's Plant Oxford officially celebrate its 100th birthday, but to millions of car owners around the world it will always be known as Cowley. Bicycle maker William Morris had long planned to make a lightweight car that was assembled ...

A dying art? An English Holiday — The Puncture by Mary Adshead, 1928, from British Murals and Decorative Painting: 1920-1960 A is a Critic: Writings from The Spectator Andrew Lambirth Unicorn Press, pp.288, £12.99, ISBN: 9781906509200 British ...

One of Canberra's most remarkable vehicles, an almost perfect replica of "the father of all MGs", will take centre stage at a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of Morris cars next Saturday. The tiny, two-seater, sports racer was the long-time ...

When Margaret Thatcher became a Conservative MP in 1959, she was living in a really badly run country. She was surrounded by men who like ancient warriors in New Guinea thought it was OK to go on and on and on fighting each other in endless male ...

From the first prime minister to own a motorcar in 1902 to David Cameron, we take a look at some of the characters to have taken up office at Number 10, Downing Street, and the cars they drove. Arthur James Balfour Served 1902-1905 Car 9hp Napier ...