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[edit] Morris Isis

Dear Redsimon

Saw your three photographs of the Series II Morris Isis. I used to have one of these. If I had known this one was for sal I would definitely have bought it. Wonderful to drive - despite the sloppy right-hand gear change. If you ever see it again I would LOVE to know where!

Thanks for the memories. Keep up the good work.

Angus (Dundee)

Thanks Angus

The Morris Isis series II was found at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley on April 20th 2007 - I am expecting to see it again if the event is repeated. I also have pictures of a Morris Isis Series I that I shot at Hebden Bridge last summer. On Easter Sunday 2008 I photographed the ancestor to both these Morris Isis cars, the Morris Six Series MS. RedSimon'

[edit] Hillman Minx

==Hillman Minx S3 or S2==

Dear Redsimon

I've been trying to make sense of the wiki Hillman Minx article. There are a lot of pictures there including this one which you have labelled Hillman Minx Series III. I am sufficiently old to remember these cars and sufficiently nerdy to have noticed some of the facelifts when they happened. Are you sure this picture shows a Series III (rather than a Series II) Minx? I do not have a workshop manual to hand, and digging out relevant copies of Motor or Autocar from the loft would take ... a long time. So I'm not too sure of my ground. I guess my question becomes only this: what, please, is your reason for having decided this super picture is of a Series III? Thanks for any thoughts you can muster on this. Regards Charles01 (talk) 17:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


Thank you for your question.

I have looked again at my collection and confirm this to be a Series III.

Series I and II Hillman Minx had a grille that was curved at the ends and contained round side/indicator lights. The grille did not wrap around the corners of the wing.

Series III Hillman Minx had a wider grille that wrapped to the side, the Series III retained round side/indicator light, whereas the Series IIIA, IIIB and IIIC had more rectangular lights.

All Series III Hillman Minx had the letters "H I L L M A N" on the front, but only the Series III had those letters BETWEEN the grille and the bonnet, later models carried the letters on the bottom of the bonnet.

Series IIIA, IIIB and IIIC had a different grille having two wide side pieces which are joined in the middle with a small central panel, whereas the series III is a continuous panel from left to right.

The Series IIIA Hillman Minx is chromed metal, whereas the IIIB and IIIC use an identical design which is made of anodised aluminium.

I found the following web page to back up my information, but there is a better page that I have lost.

http://www.theseriesminxpages.com/the%20series%20minx%20pages_004.htm

Thank you. (This tends to endorse conclusions formed from other sniffing around I've been doing since I put the question.) Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 12:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I have now re-discovered the excellent Minx site which gave me useful information and this is:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andymurkin/Hillman/Hillinfo/SeriesMinx.html

(see also my photos on Morris Oxford, Austin Cambridge and their badge-engineered derivatives)


[edit] Rootes "Audax" photos

ALL my Hillman Minx (and Singer Gazelle, Sunbeam Rapier) photos have now been put into a gallery at:

http://www.redsimon.info/simoncars/audax/audax.html

I would happily put them into a Gallery on Wiki - but I cannot see how to do this.