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1 Morris
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2 Morris
m.Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris.m. s.&pl.1 Morris, Robert Morris.2 Morris, Gouverneur Morris.3 Morris, William Morris. -
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4 Morris Carpets
Carpets and rugs woven on vertical looms by the Morris Company, dating from 1853, at Merton Abbey. The rugs are of the thick-tufted Hammersmith type in designs based on Eastern models. The company also made Wilton, Axminster, Brussels and Kidderminster carpets. The late William Morris had as colleagues such artists as Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones and Philip Webb. -
5 Morris, William Richard, Viscount Nuffield
[br]b. 10 October 1877 Worcester, Englandd. 22 August 1963 Nuffield Place, England[br]English industrialist, car manufacturer and philanthropist.[br]Morris was the son of Frederick Morris, then a draper. He was the eldest of a family of seven, all of whom, except for one sister, died in childhood. When he was 3 years old, his father moved to Cowley, near Oxford, where he attended the village school. After a short time with a local bicycle firm he set up on his own at the age of 16 with a capital of £4. He manufactured pedal cycles and by 1902 he had designed a motor cycle and was doing car-repair work. By 1912, at the Motor Show, he was able to announce his first car, the 8.9 hp, two-seater Morris Oxford with its characteristic "bull-nose". It could perform at up to 50 mph (80 km/h) and 50 mpg (5.65 1/100 km). It cost £165.Though untrained, Morris was a born engineer as well as a natural judge of character. This enabled him to build up a reliable team of assistants in his growing business, with an order for four hundred cars at the Motor Show in 1912. Much of his business was built up in the assembly of components manufactured by outside suppliers. In he moved out of his initial premises by New College in Longwall and bought land at Cowley, where he brought out his second model, the 11.9hp Morris Oxford. This was after the First World War, during which car production was reduced to allow the manufacture of tanks and munitions. He was awarded the OBE in 1917 for his war work. Morris Motors Ltd was incorporated in 1919, and within fifteen months sales of cars had reached over 3,000 a year. By 1923 he was producing 20,000 cars a year, and in 1926 50,000, equivalent to about one-third of Britain's output. With the slump, a substantial overdraft, and a large stock of unsold cars, Morris took the bold decision to cut the prices of cars in stock, which then sold out within three weeks. Other makers followed suit, but Morris was ahead of them.Morris was part-founder of the Pressed Steel Company, set up to produce car bodies at Cowley. A clever operation with the shareholding of the Morris Motors Company allowed Morris a substantial overall profit to provide expansion capital. By 1931 his "empire" comprised, in addition to Morris Motors, the MG Car Company, the Wolseley Company, the SU Carburettor Company and Morris Commercial Cars. In 1936, the value of Morris's financial interest in the business was put at some £16 million.William Morris was a frugal man and uncomplicated, having little use for all the money he made except to channel it to charitable purposes. It is said that in all he gave away some £30 million during his lifetime, much of it invested by the recipients to provide long-term benefits. He married Elizabeth Anstey in 1904 and lived for thirty years at Nuffield Place. He lived modestly, and even after retirement, when Honorary President of the British Motor Corporation, the result of a merger between Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company, he drove himself to work in a modest 10 hp Wolseley. His generosity benefited many hospitals in London, Oxford, Birmingham and elsewhere. Oxford Colleges were another class of beneficiary from his largesse.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsViscount 1938; Baron (Lord Nuffield) 1934; Baronet 1929; OBE 1917; GBE 1941; CH 1958. FRS 1939. He was a doctor of seven universities and an honorary freeman of seven towns.Further ReadingR.Jackson, 1964, The Nuffield Story.P.W.S.Andrews and E.Brunner, The Life of Lord Nuffield.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Morris, William Richard, Viscount Nuffield
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7 Morris Cohen Associates
Trademark term: MCAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Morris Cohen Associates
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8 Morris Garage
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9 Morris Garages
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10 Morris armored reconnaissance car
Military: MARCУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Morris armored reconnaissance car
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11 Morris' Supreme Court Reports
Law: Morr.Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Morris' Supreme Court Reports
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12 Morris' Supreme Court Reports, Newfoundland
Law: Morr.Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Morris' Supreme Court Reports, Newfoundland
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13 Esther Morris
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14 Curseen-Morris P& DC
Abbreviation: C-M P&DC (formerly Brentwood P&PC, Washington DC, named after postal workers Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. who were killed by anthrax in 2001)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Curseen-Morris P& DC
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15 Charles S. Morris
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16 Dale Morris & Associates
Trademark term: DMAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dale Morris & Associates
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17 FM-103.1, Morris, Illinois
Radio: WYXXУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > FM-103.1, Morris, Illinois
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18 FM-106.9, Morris, Minnesota
Radio: WMOZУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > FM-106.9, Morris, Minnesota
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19 FM-90.7, Morris, Illinois
Radio: WBEQУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > FM-90.7, Morris, Illinois
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20 First Morris Bank of New Jersey
NASDAQ: FMJEУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > First Morris Bank of New Jersey
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