Description A wonderful old Morris with a known history from new; sympathetically restored and repainted about 30 years ago and carefully used since; bags of character and just how we like them! The 10hp bracket took a large slice of the UK market in the 1930s with Austin, Morris, Ford, Vauxhall and Hillman all selling similar products head-to-head.

Morris introduced their medium sized 10/4 in 1933 and it proved a winning formula with a conventional ladder chassis, excellent Lockheed hydraulic brakes, 27bhp side-valve 1,292cc 4-cylinder engine and 4-speed gearbox.

Well-made and reliable, some 49,200 examples were sold before it was replaced by the Series II version in 1935.

This wonderful 10/4 was sold new in June 1933 by Frank Whitworth Ltd of Birmingham to first owner George Williams of Handsworth, the original purchase invoice showing that it cost the princely sum of £169 10s.

Correspondence on file states that Mr Williams kept the car until his death, leaving it in his will to ...