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.

The old black and white photo was taken outside the BMC (British Motor Corp.) assembly plant in Zetland, Sydney, this is not my actual car here but I remember the plant well, the brick building with the three windows was the factory office, the paymaster was located there.

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 Kimberleys and Tasmans. 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.