The Nuffield Oxford Taxi, first sold as the Wolseley Oxford Taxicab, was the first new London taxicab built to the Metropolitan Police Conditions of Fitness after the Second World War. It was introduced at the Commercial Motor Exhibition of 1947, and a fleet of the new cabs carried guests from the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten that November. A prototype designed by Morris Commercial was built in 1940 with a landaulette body and covered 300,000 miles of tests through the war, but the postwar regulations banned landaulettes, so production cars had a fixed-head body of pressed steel over a wood frame. Production moved to the Nuffield works at Adderley Park in 1948 and ended in 1953.
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Morris Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.
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The Oxford was introduced at the Commercial Motor Exhibition of 1947, and a fleet of new cabs served to carry guests from the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten (late Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh) at Westminster Abbey in November of that year.
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Production was transferred to Nuffield's Adderley Park factory in 1948, and continued until 1953.
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1802 cc Nuffield OHV I4 (petrol)
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The Nuffield Oxford Taxi, initially produced as the Wolseley Oxford Taxicab was the first new taxicab designed to comply with the Metropolitan Police Conditions of Fitness for London taxicabs to be launched on the British market after the end of the Second World War.
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The Nuffield Oxford Taxi, initially produced as the Wolseley Oxford Taxicab was the first new taxicab designed to comply with the Metropolitan Police Conditions of Fitness for London taxicabs to be launched on the British market after the end of the Second World War.
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The Nuffield Oxford Taxi, initially produced as the Wolseley Oxford Taxicab was the first new taxicab designed to comply with the Metropolitan Police Conditions of Fitness for London taxicabs to be launched on the British market after the end of the Second World War.
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Morris Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same vehicles.
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