| Date Change |
Description |
| January
1951 |
Car No. RHD#83390 LHD#81595:
All
Minors built with headlamps mounted in the wings with side
lamps placed where the headlamps used to be.
All wing mounted
headlamps were 7" instead
of former 5" units. |
| March 1951 |
Car No. RHD#91076 LHD#89726:
A nickel shortage
led to painted grille and hub caps being fitted.
Hub caps only were restored to chrome plated finish six months later. |
| April 1951 |
Car No. RHD#83206
LDH#81502:
Optional
water pump fitted to engine, allowing use of heater.
Complete
cost LHD - all cars now fitted with one-piece bumpers in place of
earlier split type. |
| June 1951
- on |
Car No. RHD#100920
LHD#102836: -
Tourer sidescreens of fixed type and revised hood fitted.
Car No. RHD#131460 LHD#126597:
Door-mounted ashtray discontinued
on four-door,
replaced by fascia mounted ashtray.
Car No.
RHD#124810 LHD#122788:,
Door-mounted ashtray discontinued on two-door,
replaced by fascia mounted ashtray.
Car No.
RHD#139359 LHD#139514:
Glove
box emblem changed from chrome and enamel to plastic.
Boot
lid lock strengthened. |
| September
1951 |
Car No. RHD#114923 LHD#89910:
Rubber
bushed top suspension link introduced to cure suspension 'clonk'.
Later fitted as a modification to most cars.
At same time in 1952
a secondary steering rack damper was introduced. |
| Late 1952
- on |
Series MM engine replaced by A-series
engine, in export four-door car at first.
Two-door saloon and Tourer
still fitted with Morris 8 engine until 23 February 1953, when last
Series MM Minor built. |
| August
1952 |
Car No. #160001:
First OHV engine
fitted in four-door saloon (side valve engine continued in
some), . |
| January
1953 |
Car No. #180001:
All
models fitted with ohv engine. |
| October
1953 |
De-Luxe models introduced featuring
heater, leather seats, over-riders and passenger sun
visor;
Car No.
#221842 - Two-door Saloon
Car No.
#221803 - Four-door Saloon
Car No.
#221914 - Convertible
|
| January
1954 |
Car No.
#228267:
'A' type rear axle and standard
swivel pin assembly introduced .
Wedge type fan belt
at engine no. 72610. |
| Early 1954 |
Sprung-type semi-bucket seats replaced
by more modern, flatter far less comfortable front seats.
Also around
this time and until late 1954, 10,000 cars were fitted with separate
rear reflectors as a stop-gap way of satisfying new rear reflector
regulations. |
| June 1954 |
Engine steady cable fitted, 264013. |
| October
1954 |
Horizontal grill bars introduced.
Revised instrument and control panel. Separate speedometer,
fuel and oil pressure gauges replaced by single separate
instrument with open glove boxes each side;
Two-door saloon Car No. #291140
Four-door saloon Car No. #290173
Convertible Car No. #291336
Traveller Car No. #289687
Rubber-buffered tie-rod
mounted between engine and bulkhead to act as engine steady
and to cut out clutch judder.
Car No. #293051:
New larger rear light fitting
incorporating reflector in lens cover fitted, #293051. |