MORGAN Plus Four
IT IS REMARIQABLE THAT THEY still make them, but there is many a gent with a cloth cap and corduroys who is grateful that they do. Derived from the first four-wheeled Morgans of 1936, this is the car that buoyed Morgan on after many of the old mainstays of the British motor industry wilted around it. Tweedier than a Scottish moor on the first day of the grouse shooting season, it is as quintessentially English as a car can be. lt was a hit in America and other foreign parts and it has also remained the backbone of the idiosyncratic Malvernbased company, which refuses to move with the times. Outdated and outmoded it may be, but there is still a very long waiting list to purchase a Morgan. First introduced in 1951, the Plus Four, with a series of Standard Vanguard and Triumph TR engines, laid the foundations for the modern miracle of the very old-fashioned Morgan Motor Company.
The second-generation Plus Four was the first of what are generally considered the "modern-ooking" Morgans-if that is the right expression for a basic design which,still in production today, dates back to 1936. Major distinguishing features are the cowled radiator grille and, from 1959, a wider body (as here) to provide more elbow room for driver and passenger.
TRADITIONAL ASH FRAME
The current four-cylinder Morgan is built in exactly the same manner as most of its predecessors. The chassis is made from“Z"-ection steel members, and on it sits a 94 - or 114-piece wooden framework (two- and four-seat cars, respectively) clothed in a mixture of steel and aluminium panels.
The current four-cylinder Morgan is built in exactly the same manner as most of its predecessors. The chassis is made from“Z"-ection steel members, and on it sits a 94 - or 114-piece wooden framework (two- and four-seat cars, respectively) clothed in a mixture of steel and aluminium panels.
