Heritage Motor Centre to mark William Morris centenary...

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The Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon is to host a special exhibition to mark the centenary of William Morris’s car-making empire.


The Morris engine works in Gosford Street in 1930

The exhibition – Morris The Man – will look at the philanthropist behind the empire, which employed hundreds in Coventry at its Gosford Street and Courthouse Green bases.

Morris set up a car factory near his home in Cowley, Oxford. His first car, the Morris Oxford, rolled off the line in March 1913, and by the mid 1920s he was the lagrest British car manufacturer.

The ‘modest millionaire’ later gave around £30million (£1bn in today’s money) to good causes in medicine, education and social welfare.

The exhibition opens on March 23.