Some strange people about, eh? I take it you mean a Morris 8 Series E. They weren't bad, but not easy to work on the engine (and the 10 was even worse) - little room for e.g. putting valve collets in, and easy - VERY easy - to drop them into the sump - not funny, when it happens!! They were monocoque if I remember correctly, and those earlu monocoques rusted wickedly - where you couldn't see it. My brother had a 1940 Hillman Minx for a time, and the sills almost disappeared while you watched - but you could only see the problem from underneath. Indeed, I remember when we went to Parkside to look at a later Minx - about 1952 or 3 vintage, about 5 years old - but the garage salesman said it couldn't be sold. It looked great, but the sills were so rusted that if you opened two doors one side you couldn't close them again without jacking up under the B/C post!! And they daren't open all four.........
The Ford Pop I guess you mean was the 'sit-up-and-beg' one (95E?) which was also a side-valve. Incredibly slow, lurched and rolled like a row-boat in a storm, but so simple and cheap to run! My mother was almost persuaded to have one, until she heard the engine running...the awful sucking sound it made!! She ended up with a Lanchester 10 instead.
Indeed, a friend (ex-Humber) of my father's ran a garage on Coventry by-pass near the original Allesley island during the late 50s, and he had taken on a Goggomobil franchise. He tried to persuade my father that he should buy her a Goggomobil. 600cc of pure "couldn't drag the skin off a rice pudding" driving enjoyment....!! Fortunately she put her foot down and said it was far too small. (It made a Morris 8 look huge!) Happy days, eh, with all those weird and wonderful automotive masterpieces!!