ABSTRACT
This chapter focueses on the sources, together with company photographic archives, deposited building plans, and collections of press cuttings and other material held by local libraries in Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Guildford, and Sheffield. The few purpose built factories were an exception; car making being accommodated as an adjunct to the production of cycles or other engineering. The modest workspace required at the stages of experimentation and initial production is demonstrates most vividly by Morris in Oxford, whose business expanded from a cycle and motor cycle shop into a purpose built car hire garage, where the Bullnose Morris prototype is erectes in a small workshop. The construction of some new car factories, and wider reorganisation and extension by the larger firms who were introducing track production. The bodies were presses and part assembled using automatic spot welding machines before despatch to the respective manufacturers.
