Morris · 1928–1971
Morris Minor
The Morris Minor is an economy car produced by British marque Morris Motors between 1948 and 1971. It made its debut at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, in October 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.6 million were manufactured in three series: the Series MM (1948 to 1953), the Series II (1952 to 1956), and the 1000 series (1956 to 1971). Initially available as a two-door saloon and tourer (convertible), the range was expanded to include a four-door saloon from September 1950. An estate car with a wooden frame (the Traveller) was produced from October 1953 and panel van and pick-up truck variants from May 1953. It was the first British car to sell over a million units, and is considered a classic example of automotive design, as well as typifying "Englishness". Although Morris launched a new model with a similar name and a similar market positioning, the Morris Mini in 1959, the Minor remained in production for more than a decade after that, and in early 2020, its 23-year production run was counted as the twenty-eighth most long-lived single generation car in history by Autocar magazine, who called it: "... a primary way Britain got back on the road after the Second World War."
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UK vehicles on the road
14,482 licensed and 8,560 SORN (23,042 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 20,513 |
| 2015 | 20,975 |
| 2016 | 21,195 |
| 2017 | 21,935 |
| 2018 | 22,325 |
| 2019 | 22,492 |
| 2020 | 22,641 |
| 2021 | 22,794 |
| 2022 | 22,886 |
| 2023 | 22,749 |
| 2024 | 22,898 |
| 2025 | 23,042 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q1548674CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_MinorCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1376726696 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.