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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller - On the road with the wooden class

Name: Morris Minor 1000 Traveller 1971
Brand: Morris

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Created on October 9, 2024

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Martin Sigrist

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Bruno von Rotz

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - A slightly quirky Brit with high utility value and good everyday practicality

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - The slats in the radiator grille have been horizontal since 1955. The indicators were also used on the MGA

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Understatement: Even after the increase in displacement to 1098 cm3, the Minor was called "1000"

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - double occupancy: The "radiator figure" is also the hood handle

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - From the 1970s at the latest, the "Amt" had something against the protruding hood spur on the Swiss Minor

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - emblem on the hood with the Oxford city emblem: the ox in the ford

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Whether written at the rear or on the side, the Minor 1000 was strictly speaking an eleven-hundredth

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - External hood hinges maintain the charm of a bygone era, in 1971 the Morris Minor was an automotive anachronism

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - The Traveller is always a bit busy in the joints and fits - wood is a living material

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - The light blue sticker says it all: the wood on the body is genuine

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Pragmatic: lights, reflector and fuel filler neck as universal parts

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - The 1100 breathes through a single SU carburetor and produces 49 hp at 5100 rpm

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - mislabeling: the A-series engine was originally an Austin design

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - electrical components from the Lucas range - what else?

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - An engine compartment as it should be, every component is easy to reach

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - According to the suffix F in the chassis number, this Traveller was built in the Morris Commercials factory in Adderley Park

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Ingenious Lucas patent: Windshield wiper motor in the engine compartment with flexible shaft to the wipers

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - The "safety steering wheel" with two spokes arrived in 1965 together with the revised dashboard

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Since 1965, an aluminum bezel has framed the speedometer. In the course of this, the pull switches were replaced by toggle switches and the cream-colored dial was exchanged for a black one

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - Most of the space under the dashboard is taken up by the heater

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1971) - door panel with pressed-in pipe pattern and small loop for closing the door

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Morris Minor (1950) - the newly added four-door saloon was initially only built for export - note the two windshield wipers

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Morris Minor 1000 (1959) - over 750,000 units had already been delivered - there was no end in sight to its success

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Morris Minor (1953) - cutaway model, note the overhead valve engine - at the Geneva Motor Show in 1953

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Morris Minor 1000 (1956) - London Motor Show 1956 - the transparent hood allows an insight into the technology

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Morris Minor (1961) - The millionth Minor was produced on January 4, 1961

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1957) - the station wagon also benefited from innovations such as the one-piece windshield and the centrally positioned gearshift

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Morris Minor 1000 Traveller (1966) - the Traveller version was built until 1971, the other models were discontinued earlier

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Morris Minor Traveller (1956) - from 1953 there was the even more practical station wagon

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Morris Minor station wagon (1955) - side view, rear-left, luggage compartment

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Camping with Morris Minor Traveller - everything for a vacation - Geneva Motor Show 1956

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Morris Minor (1955) - popular with men and women, here a four-door limousine

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Morris Minor 1000 (1956) - Interior, now with safety steering wheel and short gearshift

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Morris Minor 1000 (1956) - main instrument centered, lockable glove compartments

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Morris Minor Series II (1953) - the engine came from the Austin A 35 and produced 30 hp

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Summary

It lasted until April 1971, the last Woody Wagon in automotive history. As the estate version of the first million-seller "from the island", the Traveller made a significant contribution to the success of the Morris Minor, accounting for almost a quarter of the total. But anyone who only expects it to serve as a fun Sunday classic today is underestimating the Brit. Because it is also a thoroughly practical everyday car with charming added value.

This article contains the following chapters

Special ingredients
First lesson in automotive engineering
Wood lives on
The real added value

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Was that just a creak in the woodwork? Or is it just the strange feeling of being on the road in a car that is based on similar construction principles as a half-timbered house? Those who are used to pre-war cars may smile wearily. In most cases, you sit on wood, from the floorboard to the seat frame, and are surrounded by plenty of wood under the body panels. But if you imagine a car from the early 1970s - in the same displacement class between 1000 and 1100 cubic centimetres, for example, the first Citroën GS arrived in dealer showrooms in 1971 - then this Morris Minor Traveller is a very striking anachronism. And it wasn't even the only one with this feature back then. The Citroën 2CV, for example, also introduced to the world in 1948, was just entering its second heyday in 1971 with new engines. But it didn't have any wood on the outside.

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