The Morris Cowley is the British Motor Corporation that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with not published from 1495 cc. It was built from 1915 to 1920, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. The shape is credited to W R Morris & Hans Landstad.
The hardware
The engine is 1495 cc; the output is not published; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a dry 2-plate clutch, / 3-speed gearbox / (in cast aluminium housing), / universal joint in a housing by the gearbox, / propeller shaft enclosed by torque tube, / rear axle: ¾ floati. The wheelbase is 8' 6" 102 in / Track 4' 0" 48 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the British Motor Corporation line-up the Morris Cowley has a clear place: it handed the line to the Morris Cowley (1919 model); the factory was Cowley, Oxford, United Kingdom. Its British Motor Corporation stablemates include the Austin 10 and the Austin 12.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Morris Cowley — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.