"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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In article , Doctor Evil wrote:
An Austin 1100 was the same car as the Morris 110. They looked
the same and they never all came in the same colour. The hard of
thinking believed they were different cars underneath too, they
were not.

You would have to be extraordinarily
hard of thinking to believe that
the Austin and Morris 1100 were different cars.

A lot were.

BMC were playing on Little Middle
England petty snobbery as people
would wait 6 months for an Austin
1100 when they could walk away
the next day with a Morris 1100 for
less money too.

It was nothing to do with snobbery,

A lot of it was.

all to do with the fact that
there were powerful Austin and Morris
dealership chains who operated
quite independently of one another.

The ones I saw were all BMC dealers and sold the lot. Or Austin/Morris
dealers. On becoming BMC Austin and Morris dealers merged very quickly.

People do now knock the BMC badge
engineering of the 1960's but it
did have something going for it in
that you knew (sort of) what was
what: A/M: bog standard;

But the Austin and Morris 1100s offered nothing different from model to
model, unlike the faster MG versions, except a different dash. Same with the
Austin Seven (later Austin Mini) and Morris Mini and Austin Cambridge and
Morris Oxford. Only the grills and badges were different. They offered
nothing extra only appealing to good old Little Middle England British petty
snobbery.



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