Trying to understand something about the history of the *company* Morris Motors Ltd (which isn't the same as the history of the Morris brand).
I know early Minis had "Morris Motors Ltd, Cowley, Oxford" on their chassis-plates, though not sure what year that changed.
I also have a lengthy BMC publicity bumpf ("in colour"!) which shows Mk1 Minis (and other vehicles) in production and also lists one of the (many) individual BMC/Nuffield companies at that time as "Morris Motors Ltd, Cowley".
So the limited company itself certainly survived at least some of the mergers and overlapped Mini production. But does anyone know when "Morris Motors Ltd" was formally dissolved (or, potentially, changed it's company name)?
The Morris brand was subsumed into BMC (1952). And BMC became BMH (1966) though "BMC" branding still seems to have been used after that date. Then the merger with Leyland (1968) but the BMC and Morris brands continued being used. And then the nationalisation becoming BL (1975). Which eventually led to the Morris brand being given the final insult of being stuck onto the execrable Marina. The Morris brand being discontinued in 1987 after a brief stint on the Metro van. This brand history is widely mentioned on-line. But the history of the *limited company* itself is a bit more opaque and doesn't seem to be covered much on-line.
I.e. the brand history. But when it comes to the company itself, Wikipedia (and all the other potted histories on enthusiasts' pages) start off by giving details of Morris Motors Ltd's history, but then they veer off into discussing the brand without mentioning the company itself (as in the cut'n'paste above). As you say, Company House wasn't any help which surprised me a bit.
