Description From a carefully curated private collection; pleasingly correct and original; runs very sweetly; few owners, the previous for 40 years; just how we like them! Bicycle manufacturer William Morris introduced his first car, the immortal Oxford 'Bullnose’, in 1913, starting a tradition of Morris Oxfords that was to continue right up until 1971.

A cheaper Cowley version was made available in 1915 and the robust Bullnose quickly gained such an enviable reputation for reliability that, by the end of the 1920s, Morris had become Britain's largest car manufacturer, outselling the might of Ford and holding a 51% share of the market.

The first Oxford models had 8.9hp White & Poppe engines, but by 1919 these had been replaced by Coventry-made 11.9hp Hotchkiss engines which gave easy 50mph performance.

Drive was through a three-speed gearbox with a wet-plate clutch while suspension used semi-elliptic leaf springs at the front and three-quarter elliptics at the rear.

The distinctive ...