Random # 311: Low-Light Morris Minor

I post this lovely circa 1950 Morris Minor "Low-Light" advisedly, knowing that it may well give my mate Cliffy* a st🍆ffie! What the heck? We'll give him a thrill, eh!

It's certainly not the sole Morrie to grace the pages of uppermiddlepetrolhead. However, being an earlier - and thus rarer - version, it definitely deserves its moment in the sun.

According to Wikipedia, Low-Lights were produced from 1948 to 1953 and were powered by a piddling 918 cc side-valve engine. Please refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor for further details.

For those not acquainted with the side-valve, much of their componentry was incorporated into the engine block - rather than having the valves, tappets, rockers and, sometimes, the cams fitted above the head - as in the case with overhead valve, and single and double overhead camshaft engines. As a result, a side-valve head is little more than a cast iron lid designed to maintain compression within the cylinders. High-tech they're not!

The orange item seen below protruding from just aft of the passenger door is actually an indicator that stands proudly to attention when activated, signalling the driver's intention to turn. From memory, the same indicators - shaped a lot like a pelican's bill - were fitted to subsequent models but were incorporated higher up on the B-pillar for newer versions of the Minor before eventually being replaced in favour of units incorporated into rear mudguard-mounted tail lights.

An after-market indicator lens has replaced or possibly augments the pelican's bill version.

U M P H

(uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)

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*AKA: ACB, Bowser or 707.

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