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needed quick - startdate for van and pickup
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:39 pm
by norway_triumph
this site state is at 1972, but i alway thought it was later (about 1974 iirc) - info needed for a short write up here in norway .
http://www.simoncars.co.uk/morriscv/marinacv.html
Re: needed quick - startdate for van and pickup
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:03 pm
by JoshWard
Van was definitely 1972, there are a couple of tax exempt ones about.
Not sure on pickups, earliest I have seen are N reg from memory but will happily be corrected.
Re: needed quick - startdate for van and pickup
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:35 pm
by wedgeprincess
Yeah pickups 1974 as far as i know N reg being the earliest
Re: needed quick - startdate for van and pickup
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:22 pm
by norway_triumph
a quick search in my own stuff revealed
Repair operations manual 7 & 10 CWT van - AKD8125 - june 1972 issue 1
so 1972 for the van
(anyone have the month ? - the earliest brochure for van i could find (pub 2937) is datet 7/72 )
And
A product training manual for British Leyland Salesmen only on "the new Austin-Morris 10 cwt Pick-up" undated but there is a pic of a N-reg pickup in there (ROM 373 N) - so that would be 1974. The brochure compares the marina with the mazda 1600 pick-up and states "In the first six months of 1974 the mazda has only sold 600 units" So that would probably set the launchmonth for july at the earliest.