Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

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Originally Posted by spudfan

I do not use the radio/usb/cd player. when driving. I just listen to the engine and enjoy the drive. The Puma engine mummers in your ear whereas the series 111 2.25 diesel has a built in safety mechanism to stop you falling asleep at the wheel. Land Rover were ahead of their time with this feature.

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Mummers? As in:

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(Pic from Alex Tsui Photography)

Well spotted! I ment to spell "murmers".

If you put your ear close to my 2.25D and listen carefully when it's idling, you can hear Morris Dancers.

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Originally Posted by Johnno1969

If you put your ear close to my 2.25D and listen carefully when it's idling, you can hear Morris Dancers.

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That's because the 2.25D is really a Morris A40 engine!

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Originally Posted by DieselLSE

That's because the 2.25D is really a Morris A40 engine!

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Morris A40? Austin had A30 ~ A125.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Morris A40? Austin had A30 ~ A125.

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Yep. My uncle had an Austin A40 Devon.

IIRC the A40 Farina was marketed as the "Austin Morris" Farina.

I don't remember it being anything except an Austin, although I know it came as both an Austin and a Morris in the UK.

I don't know anyone who has one, although I took an interest in them as a number of families had Austins. One aunt had a A30, an uncle replaced his Rover 9 with an A70, a cousin had an A40 ute. All about the time I first started to take an interest in cars in the late 1940s, early 1950s.

The A40 Farina was only marketed as Austin. The A55/60, Morris Oxford Mks l and ll, were Farina designed. BMC got their money's worth from the drawings, also producing Austin Westminster, Riley, Van den Plas, Wolseley and MG (? Jerry?) versions.
It wasn't entirely one sided, the house of Farina also sold virtually the same design to Peugeot for the 404.