Car eight...Morris Major...'57

I brought this car when I was in Sydney. My memory is quite hazy about those days unfortunately. Little do I recall of this car or the time in which I had it. One incident I do recall: on my very first run, from my unit at Summer Hill to Brooklyn, a seaside town maybe 100 km north, I could hear a loud rattling sound coming from under the car...investigation found the left front wheel nuts were loose, the four of them, the wheel was loose and could be easily rocked back and forward on the studs! 

These cars were assembled there from CKD (Completely Knocked Down) imports from England in 1958 and 1959. I worked at the Zetland plant for a short while in 1970. At that time they were assembling Austin Kimberley's and Tasman's. In 1973 they produced the Leyland P76, an Australian designed car and, as some motoring experts stated..."a car before its time"...the P76 did not sell at all well due to radical design and quality issues (it was after I had left remember!) and this resulted in BMC scaling down and eventually leaving Australia completely.

My Morris Major was the 'Elite' version whatever that meant...lol, it wasn’t a bad little car, not very powerful but reasonably cheap to run. I didn't have it for long.