Morris Six

Among the 16 Morris Motors entries in the MotorJury library, the Morris Six holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1927. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Morris Six properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1920s were the vintage era, when coachbuilt bodies, six- and eight-cylinder engines and the first true luxury marques defined a golden age of craftsmanship. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Maserati Maserati Tipo 26B, the Voisin Voisin type C3 L limousine Simon Pralavorio, the Opel Opel 8/40 PS — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Morris Six reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2468 cc / OHV SOHC Straight-6; quoted output is 52 bhp @3,200 rpm / tax horsepower 17.71; kerb weight is recorded at 2016 lb; drive goes through The clutch runs in oil and has cork inserts. Drive is taken to the back axle through an enclosed propeller shaft to the spiral bevel final drive; the layout is front engine rear wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 26 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Morris Motors story

Within Morris Motors's own catalogue the Morris Six sits alongside the Morris Big Six, the Morris Eighteen, the Morris Fifteen, the Morris Fourteen. The record names the none as its predecessor and the Morris Isis as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class =. Assembly is recorded at designer =.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Morris Six was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.