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1950 Morris Minor [MM]

1950 Morris Minor [MM] in Taarzan: The Wonder Car, Movie, 2004 IMDB

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: UK — Built in: IN — Made for: IND

1950 Morris Minor [MM]

Pos: 00:01:41 [*][*][*] Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase 

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rjluna2 US

◊ 2020-02-19 13:50

 Morris Minor [MM]?

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2020-02-19 14:01

 Baby Hindustan in India.
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rjluna2 US

◊ 2020-02-19 14:08

 A good candidate, Gag :think:

mok HK

◊ 2020-02-19 15:35

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Lateef NO

◊ 2024-04-15 13:28

 Any evidence that this is a Baby Hindustan? All references to early cars that I can find show that they were only made as 4-door saloons and started out in the S2 guise.

dsl SX

◊ 2024-04-15 14:03

 Agree lack of references for 2-door and/or lowlight Hindustans. As far as I can make out Hindustan Minor builds started 52/53, but things are unclear about what happened earlier; Morris made serious efforts to produce CKD export Minor kits from 1950 for wherever would take them - presumably targeting Commonwealth countries as easy hits - and I've a book ref that there were 4 different initial Minor assemblers in India before things settled down. So while Hindustan may not be accurate for this one, Indian build is still on the table as a possibility/probability.

Unclear if it's a very early split bumper with joining plate.

Gag Halfrunt UK

◊ 2024-04-15 14:13

 Here's one possibility, Addisons in Madras (now Chennai):
Quote Addisons, Madras – An Amalgamations Group company, was the agent for Nuffield's Morris, Wolseley, and Riley cars, and Chrysler's Plymouth, Dodge, and De Soto cars and trucks. The first Morris Minor assembled in India and the first car assembled in Madras was driven out from Addison's twin-plants on Smith Road by Anantharamakrishnan on 15 November 1950.

Link to "en.wikipedia.org"

Lateef NO

◊ 2024-04-15 16:56

 Earliest mention of Baby Hindustan in sales literature dates from c. 1955:
Link to "www.team-bhp.com"
Link to "www.team-bhp.com"
So it's entirely possible that Addison's assembled Minors first, and then Hindustan took over the operation soon after and rechristened them.

Lateef NO

◊ 2024-05-20 12:58
Lateef wrote Earliest mention of Baby Hindustan in sales literature dates from c. 1955:

Correcting myself, here's a brochure showing the pre-1955 grille and also having Baby Hindustan written on the bonnet. Comments in that thread suggest that Baby Hindustan was in production 1953-58.

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