064 Morgan Runabout Single Seater (c.1911)

Morgan Runabout Single Seater (c.1911) Engine 8hp JAP V Twin
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H.F.S. Morgan's first car design was a single-seat three-wheeled runabout, which was fabricated for his personal use in 1908, with help from William Stephenson-Peach, powered by a 7hp Peugeot twin cylinder engine (from an abandoned motorcycle project), the car had a backbone chassis, an idea retained for all following Morgan three-wheelers, and used as little material and labour as Morgan could manage, a single seat with coil spring independant suspension, the driveshaft ran through the backbone tube to a two-speed transmission (with no reverse, chain drive and tiller steering.

With financial help from his family he put the car into production. Displaying three of the single seaters at the 1910 Olympia Motorshow. But despite interest only a handful of orders materialised, prompting Morgan to sumise there would be greater interest for a two seater This was built in 1911, adding a bonnet, windscreen, wheel steering, and crank starting. This was displayed at the 1911 Olympia Motorcycle show, an agency was taken up by the Harrods department store, selling the cars at £ 65 and the Morgan became the only car ever to appear in the Harrods shop window.

The photograph on the display board in the background shows M F S Morgans younger sister Dorothy of this 8hp JAP engined car in the grounds of their parents home at Moreton Jeffries Rectory, Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, where their father Prebendary H. George Morgan, was the local curate.

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Shot 21:08:2017 at Morgan Motor Company, Malvern Link, Worcs. REF 130-064

Taken in: UK / England / Malvern Hills District / Malvern (show map)

Taken on: August 21, 2017

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